HIERONYMOUS BOSCH: Garden of Earthly Delights
Number of pages:
5
ABSTRACT:
( 5 pp) Hieronymus Bosch was born in 1450 in
Flanders. In these Pre-Reformation times there was
a great deal of public hysteria against heresy,
sorcery, and magic. Public tortures and executions
were common. Hieronymus Bosch's work , certainly
constructed as allegories and social commentaries,
might have easily been viewed with suspicion, but
his marriage into wealth (1478 he married Aleyt van
de Meervenne, the daughter of a wealthy city
founder) shielded him from such concerns, as did
his favor with the Spanish court. His painting
Garden of Earthly Delights is discussed.
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