Hieronymus Bosch
Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516), Dutch painter. He is famous for his detailed colourful paintings of fantastic scenes, intended to satirize the foolish or evil aspects of human nature. Such works as The Garden of Earthly Delights and The Seven Deadly Sins abound with tiny figures of peasants, devils, and monsters. Bosch’s style changed in his later works, such as The Prodigal Son, when he began to concentrate on ‘close-ups’ of one or two central figures.
