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Historical Artist - Hieronymus Bosch (1450 - 1516)
Jerome Van Aken was born in Hertogenbosch in North Brabant, where he lived his entire life. He
went by a shortened Latin version of his name, Hieronymus Bosch. His large oil paintings were
allegorical and mystical works filled with both religious and mythological symbolism. His work
later influenced the Surrealists. There have also been attempts to analyze his paintings in
Jungian and Freudian terms, as it is thought that they were replications of Bosch’s
nightmares. The artist's work is well-known for the use of fantastic imagery to illustrate moral
and religious concepts and narratives. Bosch never dated his paintings and may have signed only
some of them (other signatures are certainly not his). Fewer than 25 paintings remain today that
can be attributed to him.
Contemporary Dutch Artists
Art Galleries in the Netherlands
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