('s –Hertogenbosch, approximately 1450-1516) Also, Jheronimus or Jeroen Bosch. Painter from Brabant (Netherlands) who was really named Hieronymus van Aken but signed his work with "Bosch" (after his place of birth).

The themes in his paintings are always about evil and foolishness in all its forms. The stylized human figures in his symbolic works often have a tragic beauty. His monsters are mixtures of human, animal, vegetative and mineral forms and his paintings depict a notion which claims that the seeds of anger have been scattered over all the layers of the creation. The landscape shows an exceptional monotony for that era which make the bizarre scenes even more oppressive. In recent art literature the work of Bosch is explained with references to alchemy and astrology.