Hieronymus Bosch: Enigmatic Art & Life Revealed

[@CONNELL19511216]

Bosch seems to have been acutely sensitive to the enormous gulf between society and the ideals of Christianity. But who did he sell his art to? Remarkable patrons indeed!

[@mileshall9235]

And yet it isn't out of line with the general spirit of the age. Look at Gothic art and early Northern Renaissance. The average buyer does not appear to have as sacccarine a sensibility as current art buyers.

[@JuliaBarna]

My artist mother had books of him hidden in her library… growing up I loved sneaking them out to my bedroom… so many memories 🫶

[@paulwoodford1984]

for a cheeky jerk 😛

[@BallackWhite]

@SpanishHag Can you recall the names of those books?

[@jared_r]

That was bad

[@themysteriousdomainmoviepalace]

This is so well done! It really helps you see Bosch in a detailed way. Love it! Kudos to whoever did the animations at the end. I could watch that for hours.

[@robertg.arbuckle6838]

Many artists of his time and after picked up his style and painted in his genre. This was just as the mini-ice age began to take hold in Europe.

[@sylhayes8152]

Thank you for this wonderful presentation. Lots of time to look at the works, with a calm and pleasant narrator.

[@lancelotdufrane]

Incredible works. We have only to observe. Judgement is individual. His work is odd, but here we are. Still seeking understanding.

[@pipfox7834]

He's in that class of master painters who are mystical storytellers. It only serms odd because we have forgotten many of the profound truths and forms of symbolism...

[@jdgonzo1982]

art like this just makes me think so deeply...Oh to have a time machine and to go back to these times...can you even imagine how you'd feel walking around the world in the 1400's? or 1500's? Excellent video, thanks for sharing with us all :)

[@MadiHunt-pq3rs]

A magnificent documentary, I feel it a great privilege to have found this channel and thank the producers for all the critique and research. A wonderful introduction to this enigmatic genius

[@maralynyazzie836]

I love Bosch's work, very interesting interpretation.

[@raccoonlittlebear6476]

Such a great documentary. Giving plenty of time to each piece of art for the viewer to examine them well. A very unique artist indeed.

[@carlswenson5403]

Excellent work, Thank you for posting.

[@professorjulimarlopes43]

Loved every minute, from start to end. Congratulatios and thanks for posting. Greetings from Brazil.

[@lancelotdufrane]

Thank you. I’m sending this to my adult children. Art education is so valuable. They will see these images. Better they have a small understanding, rather than none.

[@paulwoodford1984]

It will make them more kinky

[@skratch-do9nd]

An an artistic genius driven mad by the religious madness of the age.

[@Cedawood]

It would have driven so many to much torment

[@vassdell9909]

Ένα υπέροχο ντοκιμαντέρ που κάνει μια σπουδαία ανάλυση στο έργο του BOSCH . Ένα Μεγάλο ΜΠΡΆΒΟ και ένα μεγάλο Ευχαριστώ για την παρουσίαση.👏👏💖🍓🇬🇷

[@Cedawood]

Yassou ❤ 🇬🇷

[@onitasanders7403]

Another wonderful presentation much enhanced by the musical score which make it’s viewing a total experience.

[@ameliaquiles5023]

Magnificent.

[@bilalmaitla5850]

Thank you for all that you do. How do I support? Please don’t stop making these.

[@mitzura2945]

marvelous, most brilliantly, exposed in such a manner, deepest thanks,

[@LarryPerkins78]

Wonderful! great narration, and the closing animation is amazing. Thank you!

[@shable1436]

Bosh has always been one of those artists that everytime i look upon his pieces i can find new things in them. Like great music or anything complex artistically, that style has reminded me of one type of art that is popular today, its the hidden object art sold in poster form from places like Spencers, and im lucky to have had to meet and teach the artist son guitar, that paints lots of those that sell there, his last name is Masse

[@garliclasagna]

this is as other-worldly, as say, the pyramids or other such incredible works that we still can't fathom... amazing thank you so much for posting I was blown away. I'm a painter so..

[@Stechamppn]

You never forget the first time u see his work... like all great art.

[@RR448]

I absolutely agree I loved it so much I have a reprint of garden of earthly delights in my bedroom. I absolutely love e it❤

[@Stechamppn]

@@RR448 I could look at it for hours.. very unique 👌

[@RR448]

@@Stechamppn same.

[@Stechamppn]

@@RR448 it's like when I first saw max ernst paintings ..I was blown away.. ...I got a print on my wall and I often find new things in it ..same with dali....and another big fav is obviously bosch .I got a book on him..tho I wish it was bigger... pics are too small...would love to see it with my own eyes and not a book..any how all the best

[@paulwoodford1984]

it made me so aroused

[@jasonmages4323]

Bosch was an exceptional artist with a vivid imagination for the Abstract, Masterful Illustrations combined with a beautifully painted coloration of this kind of attention to detail should cause Carpal Tunnel Syndrome even if he was Ambidextrous and switched hands occasionally to share the workload.

[@mnmgreenemoon]

Waited for this...thank you!

[@javicario200]

Excellent documentary. I enjoyed every second of it.

[@trinleywangmo]

While I have seen the painting that's here in Frankfurt at the Städel (think I read they have the second largest collection of paintings from middle ages) I didn't know or understand what the story behind it was. I can't wait to go back soon to visit it with new eyes! this was a wonderful biography of his works and life. You have earned a new subscriber!

[@stenka25]

Thank you.

[@thebenefactor6744]

Just hundreds of years ahead of his time. The vignettes stick in your memory, reminding you of the vastness of the human mind.

[@NormanFinkelstein9863]

Someone with the/a Bigger Picture in their grasp.

[@jonaswhale6451]

It was the unbearable times he lived in , that made him painting these strange figurinnes . In the Era he lived many diseases occured weather was really bad in that time , crop failling vulcanos exploding comets passing gave him all the ingredients for his paintingwork is my guess .

[@VersusArdua]

Bosch portrayed the nightmarish because he saw the nightmarish. Hell is more than some epic depiction of hell as a realm of fantastic Sanity It's the depiction of life itself.Which, in itself will always be as close to hell as any man could ever experience.

[@2msvalkyrie529]

L'enfer c'est les autres...!

[@2FRESH-4U]

One of the coolest artists

[@candydeebe2725]

BRAVO! Jeroen! There is one Burgundy, that still draws breath...

[@LaurieValdez-zk3dy]

Awesome thanks

[@honestlyiamjk]

Very well done!!! The narration is superb ❤

[@zekerios19688]

Thank you, and this is a great film.

[@philipargo]

The description of him: A purveyor of Hellish diableries. That's a pretty damn cool way to be remembered. Good writer, too...whoever wrote it.

[@belginruzgar6130]

Harikaydı..Çok teşekkürler.

[@clarkeblacker]

This is an astonishingly revealing documentary. I'm increasingly disturbed by the dissonance caused by such a pious artist producing what is essentially blatant sin porn in such exquisite photographic detail. His skills are extraordinary. Still, I call it SIN PORN that lets the viewer feel like they are superior to other sinners.

[@Itcant138]

Is that how it personally makes you feel as a viewer?

[@clarkeblacker]

@@Itcant138 That's a stupid question. No, I don't feel that way because I don't believe in the fairy story behind it.

[@Itcant138]

@@clarkeblacker How very sinful of you! 😱🫣

[@clarkeblacker]

@@Itcant138 I'm so glad you took time out of your day to judge me.

[@Itcant138]

@@clarkeblacker Dog shall smite thee

[@jamielacourse7578]

I'm just learning about this. Amazing.

[@41663]

I like his work very much. I would never have thought his art was from the 1400's very impressive

[@neasahayes6044]

He really depicted the common run of humanity accurately. Bestial faces, the visible ugliness of ugly souls, bullies and psychopaths and criminals very often have faces that wouldn't be out of place in a Bosch painting.

[@AerialTheShamen]

Nope! Beauty only hides the genuine evil. Medieval equilization of uglyness with evil is wrong and inhumane. Hell is other people (see colonialism and identification of "black" with black magic and everything sinister and malicious, demonization of all other peoples gods as "devil" etc. etc.). More "beauty" (in the commercially advertized sense) only means wasting more money for makeup and vanity surgery.

[@suelipereiradesousa5027]

IDEIAS ....... 😊😊😊😊😊😊 .....

[@jasonshapiro9469]

Nobody could paint a nightmare better than him...they're like opium nightmares of a westerner

[@JustGaming117]

I'm just now learning about Bosch but his description, on down to the juxtaposition of his grotesque style and conservative Christian life, remind me of Basil Wolverton. An artist who gained some popularity in the early to mid 20th century USA as a talented caricaturist specializing in the grotesque.

[@LIZZIE-lizzie]

Metaphoical art portraying Heaven and hell. Much symbolism of the spoken word of the century.

[@marclynch314]

Wonderful. 😍

[@RobertaFierro-mc1ub]

What an imagination thos artist had! He appeals to just about everyone. We are compelled to.go go back and look real.close up to the painting and study his mind...he was incredible! I often wonder if he had a couple of close friends who would suggest some of these creatures..no doubt he was asked to.tone it down a bit.

[@eucliduschaumeau8813]

Bosch has had an immense impact on my creativity, ever since I first started studying his works in a book my aunt and uncle had in the 1960s. His quote about originality at the end of the video is prescient especially today. Films in the last decade have been stolen from earlier legacy films, for example. Cancel culture and AI are destroying all creativity.

[@MrJennyisis]

He had one hell of an imagination

[@williambock1821]

Them is some pretty pictures

[@kaloarepo288]

Bosch's art must have influenced the Adams family series!

[@markteehan381]

I think that Terry Gilliam (for the Monty Python animations) was also influenced by HB's grotesque characters

[@billtomson5791]

And Gilliam, in turn, inspired the creators of South Park.

[@onefeather2]

well done

[@marktruscott3254]

excellent

[@LeeeeeeeeA]

Wow män, danke 🌷

[@garliclasagna]

here is a great example of what life was like when we had imaginations... we have no capacity for our own thoughts anymore, technology thinks and decides for us.

[@Princesskeywest]

Glad somebody said it

[@onefeather2]

well done.

[@00wolf9]

One of these was painted on the side of a house where I grew up. Always remembered the ant with a crown eating a person.

[@jaydepalma1071]

His works are favorites of mine - only he made everyone look the same.

[@paulkesler1744]

I don't think everyone looked the same. The face of the "Tree Man," for example (reputedly a self-portrait of the artist) doesn't look the same as the other revellers around him (much less the demons). And the face of the rich guy leaning toward the magician in "The Conjurer" doesn't resemble those in the background. The extent to which he created distinguishing features of any particular person depended on the message he was trying to convey. As I see it, Bosch was an "allegorical" artist, and in allegories, symbolic messages lose their force when differentializing features are highlighted. Individuality tended to disappear, for example, when he was stressing the fact that most people are sinners, so in many of his paintings where large crowds appear, it made no sense to particularize.

[@Jimyblues]

Done so well, with time to appreciate every painting. I would rather have a scientific world view with the milky way where heaven would be than that insanely repressed way they lived back then - oppressed double by King or Queen and church, with devils lurking in every shadow, where doubting (questioning) was a crime. Appreciation to the uploader, youtube, internet, wi-fi, and freedom of thought.

[@AerialTheShamen]

Hell are other people... (Or other people's music???) This stuff is deep and scary but has enough ambiguity to see many other things. Some see in the musical instruments hell a symbol of tinitus or getting no sleep by too much noise.

[@pixels2u]

“One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small …” Bosch was clearly tripping balls whatever brew he partook of. Religiosity plus hallucinogens = Busch’s art. Even the witches had their trippy “flying ointment.”

[@alexeiromanov2250]

I like his painting that are exabit in Spain.

[@Warmhusky67]

I am reading about him.

[@elanaphi]

❤❤❤

[@ChuckSchickx]

Other worldly to be sure

[@walterhudson4253]

What planet did someone say Bosch beamed in from?

[@ankhpom9296]

Did he not come from the planet Vulca?

[@kyststudio-epicartadventure]

dendRo not dendo, for dendrochronology. Dating via tree rings, comparatively. A catalog has been built by which rings of different ages can be located in time.

[@pixels2u]

What’s happening at 0:00:48?

[@Maldoror200]

💀..THANK YOU for This.., RIVETING..(!!)

[@theminer49erz]

Its interesting that in the seven deadly sins and the four last things, he considers death, judgment, Hell, and Heaven as separate "things". Its not in an order of any sort. For example, Hell and Heaven is a one or another kinda situation, I would assume which seems to imply, to me, that all 4 things are not "guaranteed"....if that makes any sense. Idk, these cpuld be pondered over for lifetimes...and have been.

[@shaunsiz.itsbetterbytube2858]

Henry Fuseli where nightmare begins and there is no escape from the dreams of bosch

[@ArtistFaiza-l3s]

I want to watch, related any movie,this artist

[@stevebeimler2579]

His paintings 🖼️ look like an accurate realistic depiction of most present day USA 🇺🇸 Urban cities 🏙️…

[@suelipereiradesousa5027]

BABEL !!!!!!😢😢😢!!!!!!

[@olslobodyan]

18:32 Pay attention to the cross shape - this is the correct cross, how it really was, not that thing in the modern churches

[@Nick-tj8ek]

Are you talking about the T?

[@olslobodyan]

@@Nick-tj8ek exactly

[@ecuadorexpat8558]

Hieronymus Bosch must have had horrid visions of the apocalypse to be painting these scenes ..

[@sidselfjeld3312]

When I look at his latest absurde paintings, I think of Salvador Dali.

[@jibrilevans7428]

It would definitely past as A.I art today.

[@allenschmitz9644]

You can see by my 'avatar' im a big Bosh fan...surreal is subjective to mind symbols of subterfuges of feelingd.

[@Earl-z3t]

An example of a Dutch mind.

[@suelipereiradesousa5027]

EXACERBACAO 😮😮😮😮😮😮.....

[@AnastasiaRomanov-w9x]

This dude must have gotten into the magic mushrooms.

[@AerialTheShamen]

...or he licked those toads he depicted on shields as heretic symbol. 😉

[@Nick-tj8ek]

Datura

[@MichelHubert-lg9so]

🎩

[@joshelstro7581]

Anyone else here because they watched so many Metaphor Re Fantazio videos that the algorithm finally fed them this?😂

[@xarv368]

Regarding the painting of the Garden of Earthly Delights, the commentator has not noticed that the central character of the left panel cannot be God, but Jesus. Firstly, the "paradise" has scenes of animals devouring each other, which was absent in the biblical paradise. This could be interpreted as the coming of a new paradise, with Christ, while the fauna that devours each other is the fauna of the earth after the original sin. In that sense, the panels should not necessarily be read chronologically, but as alternatives of what happens in the central panel, perhaps after the final judgment: the new paradise on the left and eternal damnation on the right.

[@willthomsen7569]

A time when the old ideas were strong, yet the renaissance gave artists the tools to express and understand IE ABSOLUTE TORTURE lol

[@JoseValencia-fr8wh]

The mob in the hunchback of notre dame was bigger . Just pointing it out. This mob looks small because it’s probably occults only

[@honestlyiamjk]

I'm genuinely wondering why the crucifix in the painting is a T and not a cross

[@dalebear15]

No comments on the red Crescent Flag over the castle in the background.

[@bradyhallvideos]

pretty good for a Chat GPT production

[@red-eyedmagister1595]

This Narrator does the voice over in 'Trine'. anyone know that game? he sounds like the very same person

[@rezzer7918]

In his day: purposely perverse; decidedly demonic. In 2024: screwy and momentarily amusing.

[@sadowragnos9633]

11:45

[@TRaWi]

It's more than a little jarring when someone writes a text full of motiff interpretations and religious complexity and they don't know basic, basic notions about life, like the fact that there are no strawberry trees. Like, none, ever.

[@poppyrowland1385]

I’m not jarred in the slightest. Speak for yourself only. 🙄

[@2msvalkyrie529]

@ 3.55 sec ..... " Rats for sale . Get your rats here !! "

[@Za7a7aZ]

The most famous painting looks like a Diddy freakoff party.

[@randywatts6969]

Many would’ve said he was insane.

[@geoffsullivan4063]

When I look at his work now I think to myself that it's not at all dissimilar in some ways to certain disturbing AI images and videos which I find equally disturbingly interesting but not particularly enjoyable. Rather more uncomfortable to look at quite honestly.

[@ironnick6399]

AI speaker

[@LMB222]

All I can think of is Dead Can Dance.

[@slowneutron6163]

On one hand, the art is spectacular. Dangerous even. On the other, it's Christian propaganda. So it cancels out to : meh.