TY - GEN digital ID - 131307613 TI - Jheronimus Bosch and the issue of origins PY - DB - UniCat KW - painting [image-making] KW - religious art KW - kwaad KW - Bosch, Jeroen KW - anno 1400-1499 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131307613 AB - Jheronimus Bosch seems like such an unprecedented original that accounting for his art requires going beyond the Flemish fifteenth-century visual culture that preceded him. Essentially, Bosch broke with that earlier paradigm of accessible holy figures and images that featured prayer-and-response. Instead, Bosch favored an emphasis on the presence of evil in the world and on the remoteness of the holy figures, dominated by a Christ who had suffered at human hands and would return to be severely just at the Last Judgment. This outlook is epitomized by Bosch’s emphasis in several major triptychs depicting the Fall of Humankind in the Garden of Eden. But the artist goes further: he locates the ultimate source of evil at an even earlier stage, as occurring in the skies above Eden, in the Fall of the Rebel Angels, led by Lucifer (jhna.org) ER -