Hieronymus Bosch is one of the most notable representatives of the Early Netherlandish painting school.
16 Facts About Hieronymus Bosch
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Hieronymus Bosch spent most of it in the town of 's-Hertogenbosch, where he was born in his grandfather's house.
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Today, Hieronymus Bosch is seen as a hugely individualistic painter with deep insight into humanity's desires and deepest fears.
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Hieronymus Bosch's most acclaimed works consist of a few triptych altarpieces, including The Garden of Earthly Delights.
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Hieronymus Bosch signed a number of his paintings as Jheronimus Bosch.
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Hieronymus Bosch left behind no letters or diaries, and what has been identified has been taken from brief references to him in the municipal records of, and in the account books of the local order of the Illustrious Brotherhood of Our Blessed Lady.
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Hieronymus Bosch lived all his life in and near, which was located in the Duchy of Brabant.
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Hieronymus Bosch became a popular painter in his lifetime and often received commissions from abroad.
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Sometime between 1479 and 1481, Hieronymus Bosch married Aleyt Goyaerts van den Meerveen, who was a few years his senior.
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Hieronymus Bosch produced at least sixteen triptychs: of them, eight survive fully intact with another five surviving in fragments.
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Hieronymus Bosch painted his works mostly on oak panels using oil as a medium.
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Hieronymus Bosch's palette was rather limited and contained the usual pigments of his time.
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Hieronymus Bosch mostly used azurite for blue skies and distant landscapes, green copper-based glazes and paints consisting of malachite or verdigris for foliage and foreground landscapes, and lead-tin-yellow, ochres and red lake for his figures.
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Latterly art historians have added a further dimension to the subject of ambiguity in Hieronymus Bosch's work, emphasising ironic tendencies, for example in The Garden of Earthly Delights, both in the central panel, and the right panel.
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The exact number of Hieronymus Bosch's surviving works has been a subject of considerable debate.
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In early 2016, The Temptation of St Anthony, a small panel in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, long attributed to the workshop of Hieronymus Bosch, was credited to the painter himself after intensive forensic study by the Bosch Research and Conservation Project.