Bosch's world
His encoded worlds and composite creatures explained.
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St John's Cathedral, among the greatest Gothic churches in the Netherlands, its exterior covered in hundreds of strange figures on the roofline โ some of them contemporary, like the angel with a mobile phone added in a recent restoration. Then a boat trip on the Binnendieze, a canal running beneath the city itself through medieval tunnels, an experience without equal in the Netherlands. The city is small and everything is walkable.
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Het Noordbrabants Museum is in 's-Hertogenbosch in the southern Netherlands, a city bound above all to one artist: Hieronymus Bosch, who was born, lived and died there โ and the city's name is the origin of his own. Bosch (c. 1450-1516) painted worlds unlike anything of his time: composite creatures, imaginary torture machines, a hell crowded with detail, and encoded moral scenes. His influence reached the Surrealists four centuries later. His major panels are spread across Madrid, Lisbon and Vienna, but the museum shows work by and around him and explains his world in depth. The collection is wider than Bosch: Brabant art from the medieval period to the present, and works by Van Gogh from his early years in this region before he moved to France โ a dark-toned phase entirely unlike the Van Gogh people know. The city itself, with its Gothic cathedral, deserves the day.
His encoded worlds and composite creatures explained.
A dark phase entirely unlike what people know.
Verwersstraat 41, 5211 's-Hertogenbosch