The Economist (US), October 13th, 2001
Finding the master is not easy
HIERONYMUS BOSCH'S painted Hell is peopled with the demons that bedevilled the medieval mind. There is the cloaked saint praying to be saved from the jaws of a bat, the Christ crowned with thorns by a hand protected with an armoured glove, the naked prone man being watched by a cold blue toad that is sitting on his genitals. But Bosch, who was born around 1450, also knew about forbidden pleasure. His lurid allegories detail every imaginable carnal sin and have been famous since the 16th century, when King Philip II of Spain hung Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Deli...
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