Hieronymus Bosch (Nederlandse Jheronimus Bosch, lat. Hieronymus Bosch; ca. 1450-1516, born and died in Hertogenbosch) is the brightest representative of the Northern Renaissance, an artist whose personality remains a mystery even 500 years after his death, and whose work is a source of inspiration for contemporary artists, designers, and filmmakers.
Features of the artist Hieronymus Bosch’s work: densely populated paintings; bold, unbridled imagination in depicting monsters and hell realized in canonical religious subjects; deft combination of vivid visuals with moral content.
The paintings of painter Hieronymus Bosch are complex multi-figure puzzles, over the solution of which generations of art historians struggle. His personality is just as much of a mystery, and an honest biographer has to use the word “probably” more often than he would like.