Hieronymus Bosch - Christian Satirist
Most people who still read books (sticking my finger in the eye of America's millennials) are at least familiar with Hieronymus Bosch's "The Garden of Earthly Delights."
Few outside of Europe are familiar with the body of his works.
Little is known about Bosch's personal opinions other than the record that he was a member of Hertogenbosch's Brotherhood of Our Lady that had several thousand members throughout Europe.
From this little hint of his conservative philosophic bent we get a clearer understanding of the dystopian creatures that populate his ground-breaking works.
Did he consider Christian life under constant assault from the spawn of Satan?
Was Hieronymus Bosch an early Christian satirist of secular hypocrisy?
Did his dystopian creatures influence Germany's satiric illustrators George Grosz and Otto Dix during the heyday of the decadent, but creatively energetic Weimar Republic?
Few outside of Europe are familiar with the body of his works.
Little is known about Bosch's personal opinions other than the record that he was a member of Hertogenbosch's Brotherhood of Our Lady that had several thousand members throughout Europe.
From this little hint of his conservative philosophic bent we get a clearer understanding of the dystopian creatures that populate his ground-breaking works.
Did he consider Christian life under constant assault from the spawn of Satan?
Was Hieronymus Bosch an early Christian satirist of secular hypocrisy?
Did his dystopian creatures influence Germany's satiric illustrators George Grosz and Otto Dix during the heyday of the decadent, but creatively energetic Weimar Republic?
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