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Cavolo che kasino oggi!! pareva di essere nei disegni di Hieronymus Bosch!

Hieronymus Bosch was probably born in 1453 in 's Hertogenbosch, a town in the province of North Brabant in Holland. Few details about his life, and perhaps not the most important, are known. His real name was Jeroen van Aken and he signed his works as Jheronimus Bosch, possibly with the aim of calling attention to his native place, the woods (bosch) of the duke (hertog). Descendant of a family whose chief members were painters by profession for several generations, he was registered as a painter from 1480 on. In 1481 he married a wealthy woman of his town. He probably lived most of his life in 's Hertogenbosch, where he died in 1516.

Bosch' s thematology does not differ much from that of his contemporary artists; the subjects of most of his works are religious: Heaven and Hell, saints, hermits, the Passion of Christ, sin and its punishment. His depictions of evil spirits are nothing more than a product of the Middle Age, visible evidence of the fear of witchcraft and devilry that was so common to people of that era. However, one could say that the style of the individual figures on Bosch' s paintings foretells Realism that was to come a couple of centuries later.

But what forever identifies Bosch' s works as unique is the imagination and complexity of demoniac figures. Daemons in his works are no more grotesque beastly caricatures, but monstrous hybrids of insects, reptiles, chunks of human anatomy and bits of machinery never seen before on any piece of art. By presenting everything real and human contaminated by this devilish brood, Bosch escapes from the traditional Christian belief of afterlife judgement, perhaps to imply that the price of sin is on-earth suffering.

Bosch, though living far from the centres of art and culture in a small Netherlandish town, displayed a talent that was neither provincial nor naive. His vision was serious, vast in scope and sure of itself, and never without a tinge of mocking and irony. Though unique in style and imagination, he did not leave any pupils or disciples behind, but only a few imitators who at the most may have had some personal contact with him. Therefore, he did not launch a new era in art. Yet there he stands at the frontier of the Middle Age, pointing ahead to something as yet unknown.

Beh, se non altro siamo alla fine della settimana

e ora...festa!!

Marionji prepara la griglia!

Buona Pasqua a tutti

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