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BOSCH (or Boa), JEROM (c. 1460-1518)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 278 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BOSCH (or See also:Boa), JEROM (c. 1460-1518)  , the name generally given, from his birthplace Hertogenbosch, to Hieronymus See also:van Aeken, the Dutch painter . He was probably a See also:pupil of See also:Albert Ouwater, and may be called the See also:Breughel of the 15th See also:century, for he devoted himself to the invention of bizarre types, diableries, and scenes of the See also:kind generally associated with Breughel, whose See also:art is to a See also:great extent based on See also:Bosch's . He was a satirist much in advance of his See also:time, and one of the most See also:original and ingenious artists of the 15th century . He exercised great See also:influence on See also:Lucas See also:Cranach, who frequently copied his paintings . His See also:works were much admired in See also:Spain, especially by See also:Philip II., at whose See also:court Bosch painted for some time . One of his See also:chief works is the " Last See also:Judgment " at the See also:Berlin See also:gallery, which also owns a little " St See also:Jerome in the See also:Desert." " The Fall of the Rebellious Angels " and the " St See also:Anthony " See also:triptych are in the See also:Brussels museum, and two important triptychs are at the See also:Munich gallery, The Lippmann collection in Berlin contains an important " See also:Adoration of the Magi," the See also:Antwerp museum a " See also:Passion," and a practically unknown See also:painting from his See also:brush is at the See also:Naples museum .

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