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- HIERONYMUS BOSCH
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"THE SHIP OF FOOLS" by Hieronymus
Bosch
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- HIERONYMUS BOSCH BIOGRAPHY
1450-1516
Hieronymus Bosch is the genius
Netherlander Painter, born in 1450 in s'Hertogenbosch. Bosch's paintings
combined irreverent and grotesque images, fantasy, freaks, devils, and
bizarre symbolism to depict corruption, indulgence, religious hypocrisy
and human greed.
Among Bosch's most famous paintings are "The Ship of
Fools" c. 1500 (above), which is based on German writer Sebastian
Brant's work "Das Narrenschiff"- an allegorical poem about human folly
of lazy, greedy, useless people on a ship going no where and led by no
one. Bosch based his masterpiece on this poem and painted a ship with a
drunk nun and monk singing together, a court jester, naked people, and
other symbols of stupidity, corruption, indulgence and religious
hypocrisy. Bosch also painted the famous "The Garden Of Earthly
Delights" and "Christ Carrying The Cross".
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