What Hieronymus Bosch’s Fantastical Triptychs Reveal About the Artist’s Worldview
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While Giotto sought to communicate the Christian messages that he had been commissioned to depict by encouraging his viewers to empathize with the characters in his realistic scenes, Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) took a different tack. In his paintings, the Netherlandish artist used humor and fantasy to draw his viewers into a bizarre and tempting, yet dangerous, world, before admonishing them for viewing his scenes of pleasure and revelry with anything other than condemnation. But this approa
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