Kees l'Olandese

Red Velvet in the Garden…. youtu.be/R9At2ICm4LQ

@joenvanaken @boschbot In a brilliant act, Master Bosch lets pious Anthony TEMPT HIMSELF: he looks at stark naked Devil Queen. With his experience the recluse knows that she is created by the Devil, or is even himself as diabolical apparition. It’s similar to watching people eat while one is fasting!

@boschbot Old Netherlandish proverb: “When the wine is in the man, wisdom is in the jug.” <1636 <<Harrebomée Vol. 1, page 378. The Dutch version rhymes: “Als de wijn is in de man, Is de wijsheid in de kan.” The demons are ready to aid the seducing of pious Anthony with some alcohol.

Temptation of St Anthony

@boschbot “The punishments for the seven deadly sins in hell”, a Seelenwurzgarten woodcut (Ulm 1482) is here compared with Hieronymus Bosch’s Afterlife (“Hell”) of ~1500. I have put the names of the PRESUMABLE sins next to the appropriate scene, and placed the scenes on the Bosch painting

@boschbot DRUNKENNESS & CESSPOOL An ancient Netherlandish proverb may have been Hieronymus Bosch’s inspiration for this scene: “Drinking is the cesspool of all evils.” From an anthology of 1635. Source: Harrebomée vol.1 p.251. (Detail Garden triptych, ~1500AD. At the Prado museum)

Garden of Earthly Delights

One of the most shockingly underrated masterpieces of the Renaissance is Anthonis Mor’s portrait of Sir Thomas Gresham (c. 1560), now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. When people see it today, especially in high-resolution pics, they often mistake it for a 19th-century photograph or even a hyper-realistic AI generation. The skin texture, the eyes, the subtle sheen on the black fabric, make it feel almost disturbingly modern. Yet this painting, created over 460 years ago, barely registers in the mainstream conversation about great art. It deserves far more recognition.

@MasterpiecesArc Super hi-res imagery of most Bosch works via boschproject.org

@MasterpiecesArc AT THE DENTIST Without modern painkillers, most medieval surgical treatments would have been quite unpleasant. Rotten teeth were pulled out by tooth pullers who worked at weekly markets. Image: detail of The Haywain- Bosch >=1510; Prado. (<Medieval Life -Dorling Kindersley 1996)

Hieronymus Bosch The Haywain Triptych

@nunya33369999 @boschbot @museodelprado @SecondCanvas Made since the end of the 14th or at the beginning of the 15th century and ceased to be manufactured sometime in the early 16th.

@nunya33369999 @boschbot @museodelprado @SecondCanvas NEWS! THE JUG WITH ‘PRUNTS’ IS IDENTIFIED. It’s a Loštice Cup or Goblet from N.Moravia (Czech Republic). A unique pottery w. surface clay nodules. The goblets originally had 8 handles. They have been a highly prized form of trading goods, found in many castles of Central Europe.

@artistbosch Hieronymus Bosch’s Gluttony & Lust panel part at LEFT was different first. It wasn’t a pie, but a Goose or Swan! Now rests only the head of a (symbolic?) Spoonbill… The plate is worn by a man on his head. It makes me think of Bosch’s Tree-Man, also wearing a plate. At RIGHT.

Allegory of Gluttony and Lust #artbots #bosch

@TheFigen_ St.George popular for fresco paintings in churches. At LEFT: Naples, Italy. At RIGHT: Amersfoort, the Netherlands. St.Joriskerk.

A breathtaking 17th-century fresco of Saint George slaying a dragon — hidden behind another painting for over 380 years — was discovered in 2022 during church restoration in Naples. Now it swings open like a secret door!

@JanPrygoda @WillemdePrater

@WillemdePrater Naast deze serie had je Germaanse symbolen voor de lagere waarden.

Tijdens WO2 bleef de Nederlandse postdienst gewoon functioneren, al stond die onder streng toezicht van de Duitse bezetter. In die periode verschenen er postzegels met afbeeldingen van zeehelden zoals Michiel de Ruyter, figuren uit een ver verleden die nationale trots opriepen zonder directe politieke lading. 1/3

@boschbot THE SINNER ON THE OX is an image from the Tyndall legend. He has stolen the Golden Chalice, which belongs to the vasa sacra of the liturgy: a real mortal sin. But why has one of the sinners a Rooster on top of his helmet: is it a symbol for Christ, conqueror of darkness’ power?

Haywain - Open

@joenvanaken It may be more precise to call the mustelid at top, under the Goat, a POLECAT. Dutch: Bunzing, infamous for its smell. The mustelid family has several animals, see second collage. Source: Vincent Wildlife Trust. (Part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund)

@joenvanaken TWO ANIMALS OF THE GARDEN work are hard to define. The one at mid LEFT (in the ellipse) looks mostly like a Weasel, but not fully. For now, I hold it to be a demonic Weasel fantasy. It isn’t an Otter. The one RIGHT seems a fantasy dragon Weasel, a further variation on the theme.

The “Dangerous” album, by Michael Jackson (1991). Enlarged detail: scene from Hieronymus Bosch triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights (~1500). It was already in popular culture since the summer of love of the hippies…

@joenvanaken @boschbot @SecondCanvas THE PILGRIMAGE OF LIFE on the outside of the Haywain triptych by Hieronymus Bosch, shows a Pedlar near a damaged bridge. An old Dutch proverb seems fitting: “Before you cross the boardwalk, feel for the railing.” 17c The wooden rail stand for religious faith. Prado, ~1510-16.

@boschbot Originally, a big cross was next to the bridge. Bosch judged that the message should be more concealed. Detail Haywain outside - Hieronymus Bosch >=1510. (IR image via the @SecondCanvas app)

Haywain - Closed

@tiredie @boschbot @museodelprado And you could be right too. These things happen indeed. I read that Bosch bought two side wings. Btw, in medieval paintings, unimportant people, even donors, can be depicted smaller. See here, by the Bosch workshop

@caseiokey @boschbot @museodelprado That underpainting appears to be of a different scale, as if the panel was reused rather than revised or reconsidered. Great spotting!

@tiredie @boschbot @museodelprado Cat.2016: An almost naked woman leaning forwards () in an attempt to seduce him(). She holds a jar in her outstretched hand.. a long scarf around her waist draped over her hand. The face of a 2nd figure accompanying the seductress ()behind her (Fits in the legends, Devil Queen-C)

@tiredie @boschbot @museodelprado JOB TRIPTYCH/L.WING -presumably Bosch studio- has an intriguing person on the underpainting. He’s partly unclothed and rather skinny (ribs showing?). He seems to be demonstratively holding a round? object towards Anthony. In the final work a small figure may be holding a cup >ALT

@Rainmaker1973 I would never trust such shoes

End of shift of a tower crane operator

@joenvanaken @boschbot “This skittle party has been TOO much…”

@boschbot What looks like a hard to explain canister situation, may just be a “Can do -project” as visualized by Hieronymus Bosch… (On the “Afterlife”, aka “Hell”, panel of the Garden triptych, ca.1500AD. At the Prado)

Garden of Earthly Delights