What Techniques Did Hieronymus Bosch Borrow From Flemish Art?

Dutch painter (c. 1450 – 1516)

Hieronymus Bosch
Jheronimus Bosch
Posthumous portrait of Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1550 (attr. Jacques Le Boucq [fr])
Born	Jheronimus van Aken c. 1450 'due south-Hertogenbosch, Duchy of Brabant, [[Burgundian Netherlands [modern day Netherlands]]
Died	Buried on (1516-08-09)ix August 1516 (aged 65–66) 's-Hertogenbosch, Duchy of Brabant, [[Habsburg Netherlands [modern day Netherlands]]
Known for	Painting
Notable piece of work	The Garden of Earthly Delights The Temptation of St. Anthony
Movement	Early Netherlandish, Renaissance

Hieronymus Bosch (,^{[i] [2] [3] [4]} Dutch: [ɦijeːˈroːnimʏz ˈbɔs] ( heed );^[a] built-in Jheronimus van Aken ^[five] [jeːˈroːnimʏs fɑn ˈaːkə(n)];^[b] c.  1450 – 9 August 1516) was a Dutch/Netherlandish painter from Brabant. He is one of the most notable representatives of the Early Netherlandish painting schoolhouse. His work, by and large oil on oak wood, mainly contains fantastic illustrations of religious concepts and narratives.^{[half dozen]} Within his lifetime his work was collected in the Netherlands, Austria, and Spain, and widely copied, especially his macabre and nightmarish depictions of hell.

Footling is known of Bosch's life, though there are some records. He spent most of it in the boondocks of 'south-Hertogenbosch, where he was born in his grandfather's firm. The roots of his forefathers are in Nijmegen and Aachen (which is visible in his surname: Van Aken). His pessimistic fantastical style cast a broad influence on northern art of the 16th century, with Pieter Bruegel the Elder existence his all-time-known follower. Today, Bosch is seen as a hugely individualistic painter with deep insight into humanity's desires and deepest fears. Attribution has been peculiarly hard; today only about 25 paintings are confidently given to his paw^[7] along with eight drawings. Well-nigh another half-dozen paintings are confidently attributed to his workshop. His virtually acclaimed works consist of a few triptych altarpieces, including The Garden of Earthly Delights.

Life [edit]

Hieronymus Bosch was born Jheronimus (or Joen,^[8] respectively the Latin and Center Dutch form of the proper noun "Jerome") van Aken (meaning "from Aachen"). He signed a number of his paintings as Jheronimus Bosch.^[9] His surname derives from his birthplace, 's-Hertogenbosch ('Duke'due south woods'), which is commonly called "Den Bosch" ('the forest').^[10]

Niggling is known of Bosch's life or training. He left behind no messages or diaries, and what has been identified has been taken from brief references to him in the municipal records of 's-Hertogenbosch, and in the account books of the local social club of the Illustrious Brotherhood of Our Blest Lady. Nothing is known of his personality or his thoughts on the significant of his art. Bosch'southward appointment of birth has not been determined with certainty. It is estimated at c. 1450 on the basis of a hand-drawn portrait (which may be a self-portrait) made shortly before his decease in 1516. The drawing shows the artist at an avant-garde age, probably in his late sixties.^[11]

Bosch lived all his life in and almost 'south-Hertogenbosch, which was located in the Duchy of Brabant. His granddad January van Aken (died 1454) was a painter and is first mentioned in the records in 1430. Jan had five sons, 4 of whom were as well painters. Bosch's father, Anthonius van Aken (died c. 1478), acted as artistic adviser to the Illustrious Brotherhood of Our Blessed Lady.^[12] It is mostly assumed that either Bosch'southward male parent or i of his uncles taught the artist to paint, just none of their works survive.^[xiii] Bosch first appears in the municipal tape on five April 1474, when he is named forth with two brothers and a sister.^[fourteen]

's-Hertogenbosch was a flourishing city in 15th-century Brabant, in the south of the present-solar day Netherlands, at the fourth dimension role of the Burgundian Netherlands, and during its^{[ clarification needed ]} lifetime passing through union to the Habsburgs.^{[ citation needed ]} In 1463, four k houses in the town were destroyed by a catastrophic fire, which the and so (approximately) 13-year-one-time Bosch presumably witnessed. He became a popular painter in his lifetime and often received commissions from abroad.^{[ citation needed ]} In 1486/7 he joined the highly respected Brotherhood of Our Lady, a devotional confraternity of some xl influential citizens of 'south-Hertogenbosch, and vii g 'outer-members' from around Europe.^[14]

Erstwhile between 1479 and 1481, Bosch married Aleyt Goyaerts van den Meerveen, who was a few years his senior. The couple moved to the nearby town of Oirschot, where his wife had inherited a business firm and state from her wealthy family.^[15] An entry in the accounts of the Brotherhood of Our Lady records Bosch's death in 1516. A funeral mass served in his memory was held in the church building of Saint John on 9 Baronial of that year.^[16]

Works [edit]

Bosch produced at to the lowest degree xvi triptychs: of them, eight survive fully intact with another five surviving in fragments.^[17] Bosch's works are generally organised into iii periods of his life dealing with the early works (c. 1470–1485), the middle period (c. 1485–1500), and the late period (c. 1500 until his death). According to Stefan Fischer, thirteen of Bosch's surviving paintings were completed in the tardily period, with seven attributed to his heart flow.^[18] Bosch's early period is studied in terms of his workshop action and perhaps some of his drawings. Indeed, he taught pupils in the workshop, who were influenced past him. The contempo dendrochronological investigation of the oak panels by the scientists at the Bosch Research and Conservation Project^[nineteen] led to a more than precise dating of the majority of Bosch'due south paintings.^[xx]

Bosch sometimes painted in a insufficiently sketchy way, contrasting with the traditional Flemish way of painting in which the shine surface—accomplished by the application of multiple transparent glazes—conceals the brushwork.^{[ commendation needed ]} Bosch's paintings with their rough surfaces, so called impasto painting, differed from the tradition of the great Netherlandish painters of the finish of the 15th, and beginning of the 16th centuries, who wished to hide the piece of work done and then suggest their paintings as more nearly divine creations.^[21] Bosch did non date his paintings, but—unusual for the time—he seems to have signed several of them, although some signatures purporting to exist his are certainly not. Almost twenty-5 paintings remain today that tin be attributed to him. In the late 16th century, Philip Ii of Spain caused many of Bosch'southward paintings;^[22] every bit a outcome, the Prado Museum in Madrid at present owns The Admiration of the Magi, The Garden of Earthly Delights, the tabletop painting of The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things and The Haywain Triptych.^[fourteen]

Painting materials [edit]

Bosch painted his works mostly on oak panels using oil as a medium. Bosch's palette was rather express and contained the usual pigments of his fourth dimension.^[23] He by and large 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-yellowish, ochres and red lake (red or madder lake) for his figures.^[24]

The Garden of Earthly Delights [edit]

Bosch's well-nigh famous triptych is The Garden of Earthly Delights (c. 1495–1505) whose outer panels are intended to bracket the main central panel betwixt the Garden of Eden depicted on the left panel and the Concluding Judgment depicted on the correct panel. It is attributed by Fischer equally a transition painting rendered past Bosch from between his heart period and his belatedly menstruum. In the left mitt panel God presents Eve to Adam; innovatively God is given a youthful appearance. The figures are set in a mural populated past exotic animals and unusual semi-organic hut-shaped forms. The key panel is a wide panorama teeming with nude figures engaged in innocent, self-absorbed joy, as well as fantastical compound animals, oversized fruit, and hybrid rock formations.^[25]

The right panel presents a hellscape; a earth in which humankind has succumbed to the temptations of evil and is reaping eternal damnation. Fix at nighttime, the panel features cold colours, tortured figures and frozen waterways. The nakedness of the human figures has lost any eroticism suggested in the central panel,^[26] as large explosions in the background throw light through the city gate and spill onto the water in the panel's midground.^[27]

Interpretation [edit]

In the 20th century, when irresolute artistic tastes made artists like Bosch more palatable to the European imagination, it was sometimes argued that Bosch's art was inspired by heretical points of view (e.g., the ideas of the Cathars and/or putative Adamites or Brethren of the Free Spirit)^[28] as well as past obscure hermetic practices. Once more, since Erasmus had been educated at one of the houses of the Brethren of the Common Life in 'southward-Hertogenbosch, and the town was religiously progressive, some writers have found it unsurprising that strong parallels exist between the caustic writing of Erasmus and the often assuming painting of Bosch.^[29]

Others, post-obit a strain of Bosch-estimation datable already to the 16th century, continued to recollect his work was created only to titillate and amuse, much similar the "grotteschi" of the Italian Renaissance. While the art of the older masters was based in the physical world of everyday experience, Bosch confronts his viewer with, in the words of the art historian Walter Gibson, "a world of dreams [and] nightmares in which forms seem to flicker and modify earlier our eyes". In ane of the first known accounts of Bosch's paintings, in 1560 the Spaniard Felipe de Guevara wrote that Bosch was regarded merely every bit "the inventor of monsters and chimeras". In the early 17th century, the artist-biographer Karel van Mander described Bosch'south work as comprising "wondrous and strange fantasies"; nevertheless, he concluded that the paintings are "oft less pleasant than gruesome to await at".^[30]

In recent decades, scholars have come to view Bosch's vision as less fantastic, and accepted that his art reflects the orthodox religious belief systems of his age.^[31] His depictions of sinful humanity and his conceptions of Heaven and Hell are now seen as consequent with those of late medieval didactic literature and sermons. Most writers attach a more profound significance to his paintings than had previously been supposed, and attempt to interpret them in terms of a late medieval morality. It is more often than not accepted that Bosch's art was created to teach specific moral and spiritual truths in the manner of other Northern Renaissance figures, such as the poet Robert Henryson, and that the images rendered have precise and premeditated significance. According to Dirk Bax, Bosch'southward paintings oft stand for visual translations of verbal metaphors and puns drawn from both biblical and folkloric sources.^[32] However, the disharmonize of interpretations that his works all the same elicit raises profound questions nearly the nature of "ambiguity" in fine art of his menses.^{[ citation needed ]}

Latterly art historians have added a further dimension to the subject area of ambiguity in Bosch'south work, emphasising ironic tendencies, for instance in The Garden of Earthly Delights, both in the central panel (delights),^[33] and the right panel (hell).^[34] They theorise that the irony offers the option of detachment, both from the real world and from the painted fantasy globe, thus highly-seasoned to both bourgeois and progressive viewers.^{[ citation needed ]} Co-ordinate to Joseph Koerner, some of the cryptic qualities of the artist'due south work are due to his special focus on social, political, and spiritual enemies, whose symbolism is, by nature, obscure considering it is intended to muffle or to harm.^[35]

A 2012 study^[36] on Bosch's paintings alleges that they really muffle a stiff nationalist consciousness, censuring the foreign imperial regime of the Burgundian Netherlands, especially Maximilian Habsburg. By systematically superimposing images and concepts, the study asserts that Bosch also fabricated his expiatory self-punishment, for he was accepting well-paid commissions from the Habsburgs and their deputies, and therefore betraying the memory of Charles the Bold.^[37]

Debates on attribution [edit]

Christ Earlier Pilate, ca. 1520, i of the paintings with disputed attribution, in the Princeton University Art Museum which would engagement from Bosch'southward late flow of painting.

The verbal number of Bosch's surviving works has been a subject of considerable contend. His signature tin can exist seen on only 7 of his surviving paintings, and there is dubiety whether all the paintings once ascribed to him were actually from his mitt. It is known that from the early 16th century onwards numerous copies and variations of his paintings began to broadcast. In addition, his manner was highly influential, and was widely imitated by his numerous followers.^[38]

Over the years, scholars have attributed to him fewer and fewer of the works once thought to be his. This is partly a result of technological advances such every bit infrared reflectography, which enable researchers to examine a painting's underdrawing.^[39] Art historians of the early and mid-20th century, such equally Tolnay^[40] and Baldass,^[41] identified betwixt thirty and fifty paintings that they believed to exist by Bosch's hand,^[42] while a later monograph by Gerd Unverfehrt (1980) attributed just twenty-five paintings and 14 drawings to him.^[42] In early 2016, The Temptation of St. Anthony, a pocket-size 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 report by the Bosch Research and Conservation Projection.^{[7] [43] [44]} The BRCP has also questioned whether two well-known paintings traditionally accepted to exist by Bosch, The Seven Deadly Sins in the Prado and Christ Conveying the Cross in the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent should instead be credited to the creative person's workshop rather than to the painter's own hand.^[45]

Run into besides [edit]

• Listing of paintings by Hieronymus Bosch
• List of drawings past Hieronymus Bosch

Notes [edit]

References [edit]

1. ^ "Bosch, Hieronymus". Lexico U.k. English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. n.d. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
2. ^ "Bosch". Collins English Dictionary. HarperCollins. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
3. ^ "Bosch". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English language (5th ed.). HarperCollins. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
4. ^ "Bosch". Merriam-Webster Dictionary . Retrieved 7 July 2019.
5. ^ Dijck (2000): pp. 43–44. His birth is undocumented. However, the Dutch historian G.C.K. van Dijck points out that the vast bulk of contemporary archival entries state his proper name as existence Jheronimus van Aken. Variants on his name are Jeronimus van Aken (Dijck (2000): pp. 173, 186), Jheronimus anthonissen van aken (Marijnissen ([1987]): p. 12), Jeronimus Van aeken (Marijnissen ([1987]): p. 13), Joen (Dijck (2000): pp. 170–171, 174–177), and Jeroen (Dijck (2000): pp. 170, 174).
6. ^ Catherine B. Scallen, The Art of the Northern Renaissance (Chantilly: The Teaching Company, 2007) Lecture 26
7. ^ ^{a b} Siegal, Nina (ane February 2016). "Hieronymus Bosch Credited With Work in Kansas City Museum". The New York Times . Retrieved 1 February 2016.
8. ^ Dijck (2000): pp. 43–44. A variant on his Middle Dutch proper name is "Jeroen". Van Dijck points out that in all contemporary sources the name "Jeroen" is used twice, while the name "Joen" is used nine times, making "Joen" to exist his probable Christian name.
9. ^ Signed works by Bosch include The Adoration of the Magi, Saint Christopher Conveying the Christ Child, St. John the Evangelist on Patmos, The Temptation of Saint Anthony, The Hermit Saints Triptych, and The Crucifixion of St Julia.
10. ^ Rowland, Ingrid D. (18 August 2016). "The Mystery of Hieronymus Bosch". The New York Review. ISSN 0028-7504. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
11. ^ Gibson, 15–16
12. ^ Gibson, 15, 17
13. ^ Gibson, 19
14. ^ ^{a b c} "Bosch, Hieronymus – The Collection". Museo Nacional del Prado . Retrieved 12 April 2020.
15. ^ Valery, Paul. The Stage of Doubt, A Disquisitional Reflection.
16. ^ Gibson, 18
17. ^ Jacobs, 1010
18. ^ Stefan Fischer. Bosch: The Complete Works.
19. ^ Bosch Enquiry and Conservation Project, 2016
20. ^ Luuk Hoogstede; Ron Spronk; Matthijs Ilsink; Robert M. Erdmann; Jos Koldeweij; Rik Klein Gotink (2016). Hieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draughtsman: Technical Studies. Yale University Press.
21. ^ 'Bosch and the Delights of Hell' Archived 27 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine
22. ^ Checa Cremades, Fernando. "Colección de Felipe II – Museo Nacional del Prado". Museo del Prado (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 April 2020.
23. ^ Hoogstede et al. (2016)
24. ^ "Hieronymus Bosch: General Resource". ColourLex . Retrieved eight March 2019.
25. ^ Fraenger, x
26. ^ Belting, 38
27. ^ Gibson, 92
28. ^ The Millenium of Hieronymus Bosch. Outlines of a New Estimation. Wilhelm Fraenger, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1951
29. ^ The Secret Life of Paintings. Richard Foster & Pamela Tudor-Craig ISBN 0-85115-439-five
30. ^ Gibson, nine
31. ^ Bosing, Walter (1987). Hieronymus Bosch. Taschen.
32. ^ Bax, 1949.
33. ^ Pokorny (2010), 23, 25, 31.
34. ^ Boulboullé (2008), 68, 70–72, 75–76.
35. ^ Koerner (2016), 179-222.
36. ^ Oliveira, Paulo Martins, Jheronimus Bosch, 2012, pp. 27, 199–218. ISBN 978-one-4791-6765-4.
37. ^ Oliveira, Paulo Martins, Bosch, the surdo canis, 2013 (on-line paper).
38. ^ Gibson, 163
39. ^ Finaldi, Gabriele/ Garrido, Carmen "El trazo oculto. Dibujos subyacentes en pinturas de los siglos XV y 16" (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid 2006)
40. ^ Tolnay, Charles de "Hieronymus Bosch" (Methuen & Co, London 1966)
41. ^ Baldass, Ludwig v. "Hieronimus Bosch" ( Harry North. Abrams, New York, 1960)
42. ^ ^{a b} Muller, Sheila D. (1997). Dutch Art: an Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Pub. p. 47. ISBN 0-8153-0065-4.
43. ^ Russell, Anna (1 Feb 2016). "Kansas Metropolis Museum Painting Deemed an Authentic Bosch". The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved i February 2016.
44. ^ Hoedel, Cindy (1 February 2016). "Rare Painting by Dutch Master Hieronymous Bosch Has Been in Storage at Nelson-Atkins". The Kansas City Star . Retrieved i February 2016.
45. ^ Neuendorf, Henri (two November 2015). "Scientists Question Attribution of Two Hieronymus Bosch Masterpieces". Artnet . Retrieved ane February 2016.

Bibliography [edit]

• Bax, Dirk. Ontcijfering van Jeroen Bosch. Den Haag, 1949
• Boulboullé, Guido. "Groteske Malaise. Dice Höllenphantasien des Hieronymus Bosch". In: Auffarth, Christoph and Kerth, Sonja (Eds): Glaubensstreit und Gelächter: Reformation und Lachkultur im Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit, LIT Verlag Berlin, 2008. 55–78.
• Fischer, Stefan. Hieronymus Bosch. The Complete Works, Cologne 2013.
• Fraenger, Wilhelm. Hieronymus Bosch (Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1975)
  • Le royaume millénaire de Jérôme Bosch (French transl. by Roger Lewinter, Paris 1993)
• Gibson, Walter. Hieronymus Bosch. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1973. ISBN 0-500-20134-X
• Jacobs, Lynn. "The Triptychs of Hieronymus Bosch". The Sixteenth Century Journal, Volume 31, No. 4, 2000. 1009–1041
• Koerner, Joseph Leo. "Bosch and Bruegel: From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life." Princeton University Press, 2016. ISBN 9780691172286
• Koldeweij, Jos & Vermet, Bernard & van Kooij, Barbera. Hieronymus Bosch. New Insights Into His Life and Work, NAi Publishers, Rotterdam 2001. ISBN xc-5662-214-five
• Marijnissen, Roger. Hiëronymus Bosch. Het volledige oeuvre. Haarlem: Gottmer/Brecht, 1987. ISBN xc-230-0651-8
• Pokorny, Erwin. "Hieronymus Bosch und das Paradies der Wollust". In: Frühneuzeit-Info, Jg. 21, Heft 1+two ("Sonderband: Dice Sieben Todsünden in der Frühen Neuzeit"), 2010. 22–34.
• Strickland, D. H., The Epiphany of Hieronymys Bosch. Imagining Antichrist and Others from the Heart Ages to the Reformation (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History), Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2016, ISBN 978-1-909400-55-ix
• van Dijck, G.C.Yard. Op zoek naar Jheronimus van Aken alias Bosch. De feiten. Familie, vrienden en opdrachtgevers. Zaltbommel: Europese Bibliotheek, 2001. ISBN ninety-288-2687-4
• Enrico Malizia, Hieronymus Bosch. Insigne pittore nel crepuscolo del medio evo. Stregoneria, magia, alchimia, simbolismo, Youcanprint Ed., Roma, 2015. ISBN 978-88-91171-74-0
• Stefan Fischer, Hieronymus Bosch. The Complete Works, Taschen GmBH 2016 ISBN 978-3836526296

Farther reading [edit]

• Ilsink, Matthijs; Koldeweij, Jos (2016). Hieronymus Bosch: Painter and Draughtsman – Catalogue raisonné. Yale University Press. p. 504. ISBN978-0-300-22014-8.

External links [edit]

• Jheronimus Bosch Art Center
• Hieronymus Bosch at Ibiblio
• "Hieronymus Bosch, Tempter and Moralist" Assay by Larry Argent.
• Hieronymus Bosch – The complete works, 188 works by Bosch
• Bosch Inquiry and Conservation Project (BRCP)
• Hieronymus Bosch, General Resources, ColourLex
• Bosch, the Fifth Centenary Exhibition: At the Prado
• Works at Open Library
• One thousand. Katelyn Hobbs, "Ecce Homo past a follower of Hieronymus Bosch (true cat. 352)" in The John Chiliad. Johnson Collection: A History and Selected Works, a Philadelphia Museum of Art complimentary digital publication.
• Hieronymus Bosch at Curlie

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