This year was the 500th anniversary of the death of Jheronimus Bosch, a medieval Flemish painter whose style is so unique and original that Salvador Dalí based his surrealist style off of elements that he saw in Bosch's works.
A tiny museum in Bosch's hometown in the Netherlands brought together as many of his existing works as possible this past spring, and the Prado paid to bring the entire exhibition to Spain until this coming Sunday.
It is so popular that the line to get in has been around the corner and 3/4 of the way down the Prado (and the Prado is a VERY LONG building). Luckily, I have the "Tarjeta Anual", so I was able to skip the line when I went at 11AM. That said, I still had to wait until 2 until I could actually enter the exhibition.
I didn't take any photos inside, but let's just say that Bosch is awesome. "The Garden of Earthly Delights" is definitely Bosch's most craze-mazing work, but it was cool to see how the visions, crazy inventions and man-imals that populate his most famous work evolved over the course of his life. Saints paintings have little man-bug-demons tempting St. Anthony, or delicate bubble sculptures protect Saint Jerome praying.
And of course, Bosch gave us this: a score of music drawn on the naked buttocks of a man burning in hell in The Garden of Earthly delights. I give you the Hieronymus Bosch Butt Song:
A tiny museum in Bosch's hometown in the Netherlands brought together as many of his existing works as possible this past spring, and the Prado paid to bring the entire exhibition to Spain until this coming Sunday.
It is so popular that the line to get in has been around the corner and 3/4 of the way down the Prado (and the Prado is a VERY LONG building). Luckily, I have the "Tarjeta Anual", so I was able to skip the line when I went at 11AM. That said, I still had to wait until 2 until I could actually enter the exhibition.
I didn't take any photos inside, but let's just say that Bosch is awesome. "The Garden of Earthly Delights" is definitely Bosch's most craze-mazing work, but it was cool to see how the visions, crazy inventions and man-imals that populate his most famous work evolved over the course of his life. Saints paintings have little man-bug-demons tempting St. Anthony, or delicate bubble sculptures protect Saint Jerome praying.
And of course, Bosch gave us this: a score of music drawn on the naked buttocks of a man burning in hell in The Garden of Earthly delights. I give you the Hieronymus Bosch Butt Song:
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