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For your questions on riddles of #HieronymusBosch #latemedieval
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Dr.L.Scholten (2024) discusses the work shop(s) of the Van Akens including Bosch.
A strong argument for B having an own studio is that Markt 61 of Bosch’s wife is much larger than the family house/shop Markt 29: it has almost 6x more space!

Even without proof, it could easily harbor Bosch’s studio!
November 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Ancient Netherlandish expression:
“Owls breed Owls” 1561-1656.
A.o. in Cats 1618-32.

This would hint likely at Stupidity, although Evil is mostly behind sins.

(Details from the Garden triptych by Hieronymus Bosch.)
November 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
In search for scenes fit for Purgatory/Hell on the
Last Judgement/Wien of ~1500, Bosch Studio may have encountered a 1496 woodcut by Dürer.

Compare how in the background prisoners are being thrown down against rocks and THORNY BUSHES.
Dürer painted an other version in 1508.
November 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM
VERONICA’S LEGEND
started ~13c:
During His carrying of the cross, Veronica gave Christ a sweat cloth. The depiction of His face impression became popular.
Hieronymus Bosch & Studio painted it several times. Bosch Followers used it too.

“Veronica” is explained as <vera icon> = the real depiction.
November 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
WILD MAN & WOMAN
initially represent everything uncivilized (-).
From end 14c a new image of these hairy creatures emerges:
*Their purity & ignorance are idealized.
*They don't know God, so they cannot sin.
(After: Body Language-Museum Catharijneconvent.)

Bosch painted 1 or 2,
here on Garden work.
November 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
WHAT ABOUT THE SINGING FIGURE
on Bosch’s Anthony work?
*It always makes me think that it’s caught in a Duck trap.
At bottom some traps & baskets in trad. designs in Brabant’s wet Biesbosch region.

*A wilder idea I had, is that it hints at a famous contemporary Utrecht female hermit/songwriter.
November 16, 2025 at 9:32 PM
BOSCH’S VISIONS OF THE HEREAFTER~1500
are 4 panels of a further lost polyptych, likely a Last Judgment.
The heavenly assumption of redeemed is linked to literature about cleansing spheres of souls.
Here part of the panel + the tunnel center underpainting.

Imo it shows also a Near Death Experience
November 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
TREE-MEN & OTHERS WITH BRANCHES
can be found several times in Hieronymus Bosch’ oeuvre of ca.1500AD.

*They are all demonic
*16c Rhetoricians called sinners “barren trees” and
“withered branches”
*it has a link to biblical passages like Luke 23:31 etc.
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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if not Ponzi, why Ponzi-shaped?

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November 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
A MOON CRESCENT
is present on a majority of Bosch’s works, generally with negative meaning:
*it stands for Middle East (originated fm. army flags)
*anti-christian/heathen
*even linking to the Devil/Evil.

Except on St.John on Patmos
*where St.Mary is seated on it
*it’s symbol for the Church.
October 27, 2025 at 9:55 AM
My collage of ca.24 Arma Christi (=Passion elements). Like
*a lantern of the arrest in the dark
*30 coins that Judas got for his betrayal.
An other often seen Arma
*3 dice of soldiers’ gamble.

From the manuscript made by the Netherlandish scribe
Theodericus Werken >1450.
At the @britishlibrary .
October 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
A contemporary of Hieronymus Bosch was Leonardo da Vinci.

Da Vinci's Last Supper features one knife, belonging to Peter.
Imo this could refer to John 18:10-11, where Peter -later!- cut off Malchus' right ear with his sword during Jesus' arrest.

Now compare Bosch's Ears-War Machine-
Peter’s knife?!
October 18, 2025 at 12:49 PM
BOSCH'S HIERONYMUS PANEL
on the Hermit Triptych is dedicated to the painter's namesake.

Bosch preferred meditating hermits as models for the Imitation of Christ.
The saint receives support against the evil pagan world from the crucifix before him.
(In the original design, he held it? ILL. in B&W.)
October 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
BOSCH’ HELL & FLOOD WING PANELS
have 4 tondi on their back.

The painter seems to follow Thomas à Kempis' book the “Imitatio Christi”.
While standing strong and distancing from earthly life,
following Christ & saints is the path to salvation.
The last medaillon shows the Redeemer.
September 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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September 25, 2025 at 11:47 AM
A SURPRISING NUMBER OF PENTIMENTO’S
makes the Last Judgment/Wien an original, not a copy.
I even think that Bosch’s sketch can be discerned (purple arrow). Colors are my fantasy.

The person(s) that executed the work were wise in creating more empty spaces + making great scenes!
September 23, 2025 at 9:43 AM
A STUDY OF CLOTHING FOLDS
helps in determining if an artwork is made by a Master.
LEFT a detail of The Entombment of Christ at the British Museum
(2nd illustration is the full drawing).
RIGHT a detail of The Haywain by Bosch at the Prado

The BRCP’s Catalogue Raissoné attributed the drawing to BOSCH
September 22, 2025 at 10:24 AM
COMIC SCENES
A comical scene that Bosch used a few times, possibly going back to an old story, is that of the birds escaping from a man’s behind.
It also is a literal depiction of a Dutch proverb.

The drawing has secondary comical scenes,
of children who try to catch the birds!
September 18, 2025 at 10:10 AM
FOX & COCKEREL
On the back of Bosch’s drawing “Two Old Women” is a sketch with a Cockerel & Fox, and some Duck parts.

Fortunately we have a painting that shows the outcome!
On the St.Jerome at Prayer, of the MSK Ghent, the Fox is sleeping satisfied, some Cockerel parts nearby.
September 16, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Author Fisher (Edition 2023) mentions that some of the Seven Deadly Sins are pictured on the Last Judgement/Wien by the Bosch Studio, of ca.1500AD.

They are with several examples, from left to right:
Sloth,
Lust,
Wrath,
and
Gluttony.

(I added the man on the bed also to Sloth.)
September 15, 2025 at 9:16 AM
NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES
as painted by Hieronymus Bosch,
in circa 1500AD:
1.leaving the body
2.tunnel of light
3.meeting guiding beings
4.(life review)
5.presence of love, accepting
6.a boundary, f.i. like a gate
7.some experiences were haunting.

(List after @thedarshakrana based on Dr.Raymond Moody)
September 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
MALTHUS,
while St.Peter cuts off an ear.
At RIGHT by Hieronymus Bosch ~1500. On the Outside of Anthony triptych Lisbon.

At LEFT in a Passion scene, ~1440-50. In Book of Hours of Katharina van Lokhorst.
Evil is hinted at by giving him a small body;
compare other deformed person from Anthony triptych
August 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM
DECODING BOSCH
At first there’s no relationship between these images.
But painter Bosch let the Devil make an abomination to bully pious St.Anthony:
instead of the trad.Pelican feeding its young w blood (so it was thought), he made a Bittern eat its chicken- actually a real thing!

L.Art:Aron Bakker
August 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
SIMILARITIES
The Palacio Decanal of Tudela, Navarro, has an interesting Last Judgment work, once linked to a Bosch assistant.

It surely contains some elements to be found on Bosch Studio works.
As always: are they copied, but by whom and from what?

By JL FilpoC
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August 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM