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Royal Treatments: Hieronymus Bosch at 500

Posted on: 03.31.16 | by Susan Jaques

Jacques Le Boucq, Portrait of Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1550, Arras, Bibliothèque Municipale On the 500th anniversary of his death, medieval Netherlandish painter Hieronymous Bosch is a smash hit.  To meet the demand for “Jheronimus Bosch – Visions of genius,” the Noordbrabants Museum in Den Bosch has added 30,000 tickets to the 380,000 tickets that flew out the door.  Between March 24 and May 8, the museum will stay open until 11 pm, seven days a week. Crowds are flocking to the artist’s hometown for the largest Bosch retrospective to date -- a remarkable reunion of most of his known works.  Some 17 paintings (panels and triptychs) and 19 drawings are organized into six thematic sections.  In dramatic fashion, visitors come face-to-face with Bosch’s highly original monsters, demons, angels and saints. Over the centuries, natural aging of the material components of the paintings and human intervention have adversely affected some of Bosch’s works.  Nine were able to travel to the Read More

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