What is Hieronymus Bosch?
{{Infobox Artist | bgcolour = | name = Hieronymus Bosch | image = Jheronimus Bosch (cropped).jpg | image_size = 300px | caption = Hieronymus Bosch | birth_name = Jeroen Anthonissen van Aken | birth_date = c. 1450 | birth_place = | death_date = 9 August 1516 | death_place = [['s-Hertogenbosch]], [[The Netherlands]] | nationality = Dutch | field = [[Painting]], [[drawing]] | training = | movement = [[Renaissance]] | works = | patrons = | awards = }} '''Hieronymus Bosch''', (born Jeroen Anthonissen van Aken, c. 1450 – 9 August 1516) was an early [[Dutch people|Dutch]] [[Painting|painter]]. He lived, worked and died in [['s-Hertogenbosch]], a Dutch town. This was then the capital of the [[Seventeen Provinces|Duchy of Brabant]], a region which included much of modern [[Belgium]] and [[Holland]]. Many of his works depict [[wikt:tempt|temptation]], [[sin]] and [[punishment]] in [[hell]]. The paintings have a [[dream]]like [[wikt:surreal|surreal]] quality, with [[sexual]] and [[Sadism|sadistic]] [[image]]s. The intent was probably serious, to warn of the punishment which awaited sinners in hell. The paintings often look like, and certainly did influence, the [[modern art]] movement known as [[surrealism]]. Bosch used images of [[demon]]s, half-human animals and machines, to evoke fear and confusion, and to portray the evil of man. His works contain complex, highly original, [[imagination|imaginative]], and dense use of [[symbol]]ic figures and [[Icon (disambiguation)|icon]]ography, some of which was obscure even in his own time. Today only 25 paintings are known to be by him; [[Philip II of Spain]] collected some of the best, which are now in the [[Prado Museum]], [[Madrid]]. <gallery> File:Bosch-signature.svg File:Ecce homo by Hieronymus Bosch.jpg|''Ecce homo'' File:Hieronymus Bosch 053.jpg|''The Stone Cutting'', or ''The cure of folly'' File:Jheronimus Bosch 001 interior 02.jpg|''The Temptation of Saint Anthony''