BOSCH. The complete paitings

Even his contemporaries found the work of the Dutch painter HieronymusBosch (1450-1516) difficult to 'decode'- and it still presents riddles toart historians today. Although rooted in the Old Dutch tradition, Bosch developed a highlysubjective, richly suggestive formal language. With a mixture of religioushumility and satanic wit, he illustrated both the joys of heaven and thecruelly imaginative tortures of hell. In his pictorial world teeming with surrealistic nightmares, the medievalimagination catches fire in a moment of final brilliance before succumbingto humanism and modern rationalism. One of the most admired artists to emerge from the 1980s art boom