Hieronymus Bosch | Horrors of The Middle Ages

"For the first and perhaps for the only time, an artist had succeeded in giving concrete and tangible shape to the fears that had haunted the minds of man in the Middle Ages. It was an achievement that was perhaps only possible at this very moment of time when the old ideas were still vigorous while the modern spirit has provided the artist with methods to represent what he saw." - Ernst H. Gombrich, 1950

The art of the Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) is one of the most fascinating of all art that's been created through western art history. As Gombrich states in 1950, Bosch was able to bring to life and portray the fears and anxiety that haunted mankind in the Middle Ages. In the middle of reformations and religious wars, humanity revealed the cruelty and horrors they were capable of committing – raising the question of the almighty and all-good God's existence to doubt more than ever. Bosch depicts horror monsters, animals and all kinds of fantasy creatures and objects with excruciating detail, often placed in hell-ish or dream-like scenes. With his grotesque and surreal art, he has later been a source of inspiration for Surrealist painters in the 20th century. As the author of the Surrealist Manifest wrote himself, and hereby showed his respect for Bosch: " Bosch is a complete visionary... His oeuvre, having emerged out of oblivion, calls into question the very foundations of the art of painting." – Andre Breton, 1957.

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