Why are owls associated with wisdom and learning? Do they have more sinister meanings? Was Bosch that keen on owls?
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What do Bosch’s many owls signify? Wisdom, night, or something more sinister?
A truly giant saint, in a landscape with sinister and disturbing events taking place.
Railways and painting have been intertwined since 1844. Turner, Manet, Monet, van Gogh, and others show how.
Every bit as radical as Cézanne, his paintings capture the countryside of a long lost era, with its horses and carts.
Another devotional painting, but with a strangely empty landscape background.
An unusual painting, all about faces, expressions, and hands.
Bosch’s Passion Scenes is an unusual painting, combining multi-frame and multiplex narrative in the round. Is it unique?
A fine portrait by a master, which also contains a delightful caricature self-portrait, and an interesting reverse side.
An unusual and original portrait, originally part of an altarpiece. Bosch’s strange plants are starting to play a major role.
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