We live in a world that is greatly shaped around culture and expressionism. Our many generations of existence are recognized as eras based on the arts of each time period. One of these time periods is called The Renaissance, which began in the early 14th century around Northern Italy. It was a time when artists, writers, and scholars emerged from the dark times of the plague and mass death in Europe. The Renaissance is recognized to contain many of the great legends such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Shakespeare, and countless others. One particularly prominent artist of this era is Hieronymus Bosch, who was considered appreciable as well as imaginative.
Hieronymus Bosch was born in 1450 in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, just south of present-day Netherlands. Little is known about his life or training except that he was a member of the Brotherhood of our Lady, a religious community that worshipped the Virgin Mary. Bosch lived in ‘s-Hertogenbosch all his life with…show more content… This Triptych contains representations of the Fall of Adam and Eve, The Last Judgement, and Hell. On the top of the right panel is God creating Earth while Rebel Angels fall from the Heavens, from the bottom up is God creating Adam and Eve, then Eve being tempted to eat the apple, subsequently being expelled from their paradise. The middle panel represents the last judgement in the Valley of Jehoshaphat. Jesus Christ is deciding who will ascend to Heaven and who will go to Hell while strange monsters capture sinners. This vision of the Last Judgement is unique because in the image, fire is represented in Earth’s end unlike da Vinci’s or Dϋrer’s depiction of the great flood. The right panel shows sinners being forever tortured in Hell. In this piece, Bosch ¨seems to have excelled in being able to portray, imaginatively, almost surreally, what everyone was unable to imagine: what life in the Garden of Eden or Hell would be
