


Many subsidiary scenes illustrate proverbs and figures of speech in common use in Bosch’s day. Alongside traditional hybrids of man and beast, such as centaurs, and mythological creatures such as unicorns, devils, dragons, and griffins, we also encounter countless mixed creatures freely invented by the artist. One of his greatest inventions was to take the figural and scenic representations known as drolleries, which use the monstrous and the grotesque to illustrate sin and evil, and to transfer them from the marginalia of illuminated manuscripts into large-format panel paintings. Bosch’s paintings are populated with grotesque scenes of fantastical creatures succumbing to all manner of human desire, fantasy, and angst. In the midst of the realist-leaning artistic climate of the Late Gothic and Early Renaissance, Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch (c. Barne- og ungdomsbøker for motvillige lesere.Se alle bøker innen Dokumentar og fakta ».Se alle bøker innen Økonomi, administrasjon og ledelse ».Se alle bøker innen Pedagogikk og samfunnsvitenskap ».Naturvitenskap, filosofi, teori og metode.Se alle bøker innen Medisin, helse og psykologi ».
