Hieronymus Bosch
Hieronymus Bosch was a Dutch painter of the late 15th and early 16th centuries, known for fantastical religious imagery filled with grotesque creatures, demons, and surreal torments.
His triptych *The Garden of Earthly Delights* remains iconic.
Boschian describes similarly nightmarish or bizarre imagery: The film's hellscape was pure Bosch.
Violation of divine law
- temptationUrge toward the unwise
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- damnationEternal punishment decree
- heavenSky or bliss
hell · purgatory · Last Judgment · apocalypse · Garden of Eden · original sin · Adam and Eve · paradise
Symbolic tale with deeper meaning
- triptychArt in three panels
- iconographyAnalysis of artistic symbols
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
- ChristianityFaith based on Jesus
visions · heresy · alchemy · moralizing · hidden meanings · owl · fruit · nudity
Distorted, bizarre figure
- fantasticalExtravagantly unreal or imaginary
- hellscapeNightmarish, ruined place
- hybrid creaturesAnimals of mixed ancestry
- demonsMalevolent supernatural beings
monsters · torment · nightmarish · bizarre · owl · fish · bird-headed · anthropomorphic
Of the Low Countries
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
- triptychArt in three panels
- altarpieceReligious art behind altar
- oilSlippery viscous fluid
panel · Last Judgment · iconography · patron · guild · workshop · Northern Renaissance · primitives
Irrational, dreamlike aesthetic
- DalíSpanish surrealist painter
- MagritteBelgian surrealist painter
- psychedelicInducing altered perception
- uncannyEerily beyond normal
visionary · avant-garde · Bruegel · hallucinatory · oneiric · bizarre · modern art · fantastical
sin
Violation of divine law
- temptationUrge toward the unwise
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- damnationEternal punishment decree
heaven · hell · purgatory · Last Judgment · apocalypse · Garden of Eden · original sin · Adam and Eve · paradise · afterlife
allegory
Symbolic tale with deeper meaning
- triptychArt in three panels
- iconographyAnalysis of artistic symbols
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
Christianity · visions · heresy · alchemy · moralizing · hidden meanings · owl · fruit · nudity · musical instruments
grotesque
Distorted, bizarre figure
- fantasticalExtravagantly unreal or imaginary
- hellscapeNightmarish, ruined place
- hybrid creaturesAnimals of mixed ancestry
demons · monsters · torment · nightmarish · bizarre · owl · fish · bird-headed · anthropomorphic · chimera
Netherlandish
Of the Low Countries
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
- triptychArt in three panels
- altarpieceReligious art behind altar
oil · panel · Last Judgment · iconography · patron · guild · workshop · Northern Renaissance · primitives · Philip II
surrealism
Irrational, dreamlike aesthetic
- DalíSpanish surrealist painter
- MagritteBelgian surrealist painter
- psychedelicInducing altered perception
uncanny · visionary · avant-garde · Bruegel · hallucinatory · oneiric · bizarre · modern art · fantastical · subconscious
- 15th Century FiguresChristopher Columbus, Leonardo da Vinci, Johannes Gutenberg, Joan of Arc, Isabella I
- Medieval ArtistsGiotto, Andrei Rublev, illuminator, miniaturist
- artistsPablo Picasso, painter, artist, illustrators, Leonardo da Vinci
- paintersBotticelli, Caravaggio, Cezanne, Da Vinci, Dali
- Dutch ArtistsRembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, Piet Mondrian, Vincent van Gogh, M.C. Escher
- Dutch FiguresErasmus, Vermeer, Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Anne Frank
Hieronymus BoschRaphael
Renaissance painter from Urbino
Sandro Botticelli · Norman Rockwell · Vermeer · Leonardo da Vinci · Giotto
Hieronymus BoschPiet Mondrian
Kazimir Malevich · minimalism · clarity · rationalism · legibility