Ovi Art eBooks

Bosch, who lived around the turn of the sixteenth century in the Brabant town of ’s-Hertogenbosch, left behind a universe that seems less painted than excavated from the subconscious. His canvases are populated by hybrid monsters, grotesque landscapes, absurd punishments and bewildering moral spectacles. They are populated, too, by ordinary human weaknesses: vanity, lust, greed, gluttony, cruelty, stupidity and the remarkably persistent belief that someone else will eventually pay for our sins