Hieronymous Bosch

This image is from the center part of his tripict named The Garden of Earthly Delights. To the left would be an image representive of heaven and the right would have an image of purgatory. This piece shows the decadence of men on earth. Hieronymus Bosch was an early Netherlandish painter of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Many of his works depict sin and human moral failings. Bosch used images of demons, half-human animals and machines to evoke fear and confusion to portray the evil of man. His works contain complex, highly original, imaginative, and dense use of symbolic figures and iconography, some of which was obscure even in his own time.