The master of the monstrous ...
the discoverer of the unconscious.
Carl Gustav Jung, on Hieronymus Bosch
Hieronymus, or Jerome, Bosch,
b. c.1450, d. August 1516, spent his entire
artistic career in the small Dutch town of Hertogenbosch, from which he
derived his name.
At the time of his death, Bosch was internationally celebrated as an
eccentric painter of religious visions who dealt in particular with the
torments of hell. During his lifetime Bosch's works were in the inventories
of noble families of the Netherlands, Austria, and Spain, and they were
imitated in a number of paintings and prints throughout the 16th century,
especially in the works of
Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
Bosch was a member of the religious Brotherhood of Our Lady, for whom he
painted several altarpieces for the Cathedral of Saint John's, Hertogenbosch,
all of which are now lost. The artist probably never went far from home,
although records exist of a commission in 1504 from Philip the Handsome
(later king of Castile), for a lost Last Judgment altarpiece. None of
Bosch's pictures are dated, although the artist signed many of them.
From October of 1916 through January of 1917, Rudolf Steiner gave a series
of nine lectures known as the Art Course. These lectures were given
the title of:
The History of Art.
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