1450-1516) secured his place as a pillar of art history. You can also follow him on Twitter at and/or watch his films here.A bird-monster devouring sinners, naked bodies in tantric contortions, a pair of ears brandishing a sharpened blade: with just 20 paintings and nine drawings to his name, Netherlandish visionary Hieronymus Bosch (c.

Ted Mills is a freelance writer on the arts who currently hosts the Notes from the Shed podcast and is the producer of KCRW’s Curious Coast.

The Meaning of Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights Explained Take a Virtual Tour of Hieronymus Bosch’s Bewildering Masterpiece The Garden of Earthly Delights Hieronymus Bosch Figurines: Collect Surreal Characters from Bosch’s Paintings & Put Them on Your Bookshelf Grab that scroll wheel and check out the Garden-there’s plenty of room. For sure, the artist wanted us to meditate on greater matters like our own salvation, but there’s so much fun in the way he paints animals, or in the bacchanalia of The Garden of Earthly Delights, you can be forgiven for thinking he’d want to party as well. Closer examination of his grand panels reveals Bosch’s cartoonish brushwork, his caricature, and his immense humor. Other paintings allow the viewer to examine the infrared reflectogram of the painting’s layers, exposing Bosch’s corrections and deletions. It’s also easy to move around in the work with just the scrollwheel of the mouse. It makes for some interesting, but not essential, juxtapositions. And in a nod to his use of triptychs, the other two sides of the painting zoom in as well.

The “synchronized image viewers” allow us to zoom in to the smallest brushstroke to examine Bosch’s detailed worlds and characters. Here is where the Bosch Project website shines. The year 2016 marked the 500th anniversary of Bosch’s death, with celebrations in the artist’s birthplace of Hertogenbosch and a revolutionary exhibition in Noordbrabants, which stirred controversy when it disputed the authenticity of several major works in the Prado Museum in Spain, added two new attributions, and restored nine works.

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