Hieronymus Bosch. The Complete Works av Stefan Fischer

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<p>In the midst of the realist-leaning artistic climate of the Late Gothic and Early Renaissance, <strong>Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch </strong>(c. 1450¿1516) was more than an anomaly. Bosch¿s paintings are populated with grotesque scenes of fantastical creatures succumbing to all manner of human desire, fantasy, and angst. One of his greatest inventions was to take the figural and scenic representations known as <em>drolleries</em>, which use the monstrous and the grotesque to illustrate sin and evil, and to transfer them from the marginalia of illuminated manuscripts into large-format panel paintings. Alongside traditional hybrids of man and beast, such as centaurs, and mythological creatures such as unicorns, devils, dragons, and griffins, we also encounter countless mixed creatures freely invented by the artist. Many subsidiary scenes illustrate proverbs and figures of speech in common use in Bosch¿s day. In his <em>Temptation of St Anthony</em> triptych, for example, the