DETAILS
- Artist
- Hieronymus Bosch
- Date
- 1480
- Location
- Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
ART MOVEMENTS
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THE ARTIST
Hieronymus Bosch
1450–1516 · Northern Low CountriesHieronymus Bosch, a Dutch painter from the Northern Low Countries, filled his oak panels with fantastic illustrations of religious concepts, from the Garden of Eden to macabre depictions of hell.
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Further Works by Bosch
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The Garden of Paradise
1495 · Art Institute of Chicago
The Conjurer (The Juggler)
1502
The Adoration of the Magi
Noordbrabants Museum
Head of an old woman
1500 · Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Saint Christopher Carrying the Christ Child
1500 · Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
The Wayfarer
1500 · Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Two Medallions with Symbolic-Religious Representations
1515 · Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
The Last Judgment
1478 · Art Institute of Chicago
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More works to explore
Beyond Bosch and Northern Renaissance: works from the same years.
Same era · 1460s–1490s
Portrait of a Musician
Leonardo da Vinci · 1485 · Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
Same era · 1460s–1490s
Virgin and Child with an Angel
Sandro Botticelli · 1470 · Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Same era · 1460s–1490s
Marriage of Mary and Joseph
Master of the View of Saint Gudula · 1480 · Munich Central Collecting Point
Same era · 1460s–1490s
The Lamentation
Albrecht Dürer · 1477 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Same era · 1460s–1490s
Adoration of the Christ Child
Workshop of Andrea della Robbia · 1479 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same era · 1460s–1490s
Madonna and Child
Giovanni Bellini · 1470 · Musée Fesch
Same era · 1460s–1490s
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints John the Baptist and Sebastian
Pietro Perugino · 1493 · Uffizi Gallery
Same era · 1460s–1490s
Plate with arms of the Tosinghi family
Artist Unknown - The Mercat Cross, Aberdeen · 1495 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art


