History Creator / HieronymusBosch

* AnimatedAdaptation: ''[[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=loetcOWYfvA The Midnight Parasites]]'' is a 1972 anime short inspired by Bosch's work.

* The land of The Boiling Isles in the Disney animated series ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' was inspired by Bosch's work. In fact, some of the show's background characters are derived directly from The Garden of Earthly Delights.

* The land of The Boiling Isles in the Disney animated series ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' was inspired by Bosch's work. In fact, some of the show's character designs are derived directly from The Garden of Earthly Delights.

* MyGodYouAreSerious: Many interpretations about Bosch's art suffer from insufficient knowledge about medieval society. For instance, his depictions of Hell weren't supposed to be entertaining fantasies: they are warning visions of what people actually feared Hell would be like!

* GrotesqueGallery: Consider [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_Carrying_the_Cross_(Bosch,_Ghent) his painting of Christ Carrying The Cross]].

* AnimatedAdaptation: ''[[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=loetcOWYfvA The Midnight Parasites]]'' is a 1972 anime shirt inspired by Bosch's work.

* APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy: The middle panel of "The Garden of Earthly Delights" shows numerous nude men and women enjoying a paradise full of erotic intercourse and symbolism.

* MindScrew: Everything

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: One of the most bizarre is a bird like creature on the "Hell panel" of the Garden of Earthly Delights who sits on a toilet and swallows people whole, only to shit them out again.

* TheDungAges: Most of our ideas about the Middle Ages as a filthy, backward, God and Hell fearing society full of peasants being surpressed by kings, noblemen and the Church are derived from Bosch's paintings.

* MyGodYouAreSerious: Many interpretations about Bosch's art suffer from insufficient knowledge about medieval society. For instance, his depictions of Hell weren't supposed to be entertaining fantasies: they are warning visions of what people actually feared Hell would be like!

* ReligiousHorror: The horrors of the afterlife are more prominent than the good things.

* The Music/TheyMightBeGiants song "Celebration" includes the line "The unlikely crowd assembled here's like Hieronymus Bosch, Hieronymous".

* Music/TheyMightBeGiants name-drops him (by first name only) in their song "Celebration".

** On the third panel of ''The Garden of Earthly Delights'' musicians are being impaled on the strings of their instruments.

* CreatorCameo: The figure in the trope image is reputed to be a self-portrait, but this has never been confirmed.

* AuthorAvatar / CreatorCameo: The Tree Man, seen in the page image.

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Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) was a [[UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands Dutch]] [[TheMiddleAges medieval]] painter, best known for his colorful and grotesque depictions of {{Hell}}. He made several paintings about the subject and nobody has ever come close to his vivid and creepy visions of the place: Ugly [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demons]] torturing people in complete agony and scenes which predate {{Surrealism}} by five centuries. Most of these strange NightmareFuel scenes are the product of symbolism that might be clear and understandable to a (noble or monied, and certainly educated) viewer in Bosch's age, but now, centuries later, can be difficult to decipher. Bosch's paintings show mankind in all of his corruptness and meanspiritness, doomed to end up in Hell, while only a few chosen ones will be allowed in {{Heaven}}. Even the Church is not spared in his fatal vision. He was able to depict north-west European society during {{the Late Middle Ages}} in a scathingly satirical and memorable light, one that continues to inspire artists to this day.

* GrimReaper: Featured in his painting ''"Death And The Miser"''.

* AuthorAvatar / CreatorCameo - The Tree Man, seen in the page image.

** CrapsaccharineWorld - The middle panel of "The Garden Of Earthly Delights".

* BodyHorror: Certain demons are half animal or half tree.
* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: In "The Garden of Earthly Delights" many buildings have all kinds of weird shapes.

** CrapsaccharineWorld - The middle panel of "The Garden Of Earthly Delights"

* GrimReaper: Featured in his painting ''"Death And The Miser"''.
* {{Hellgate}}: Present in some of Hell paintings
* HumansAreBastards: In Bosch's art the entire world seems to be evil or at least morally fallible, destined to suffer from eternal damnation in Hell.
* IronicHell: Many victims of Hellish torture on his paintings hold small objects that allow us to identify their sins on Earth.
** If a woman and a candle are seen together, she was an adulteress, because candles symbolized lust.
** People being forced fed were gluttons.

* OurMonstersAreDifferent: The same goes for his monsters
* PhallicWeapon: On the Hell panel of "The Garden Of Earthly Delights" a huge knife can been seen with two ears on the side.
* ReligiousHorror: The horrors of the afterlife are more prominent than the good things.
* RiddleForTheAges: Some scenes are still a mystery for art historians. Part of the problem is that in a few cases, we know that his images are literal depictions of contemporary metaphors (or cultural in-jokes), which means that some of the things we haven't figured out are just sayings that are otherwise unattributed.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Bosch caught the Middle Ages in Europe while they were happening. Today his work pretty much defines our opinion about the Dark Middle Ages.

* Scenes from Bosch's paintings can be seen in the music video "Spokes For The Wheel Of Torment" by Music/{{Buckethead}}
* Creator/RobertCrumb once drew a parody of Bosch's ''"Christ Carrying The Cross"''.
* In WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons episode ''[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E10BartGetsHitByACar Bart Gets Hit By A Car]]"'' Bart travels to Hell and sees the Hell panel of Bosch's ''"Garden Of Earthly Delights"''.

* [[{{Tropers/Scythemantis}} Jonathan]] [[{{Website/Bogleech}} Wojcik's]] surreal RPG ''{{TabletopGame/Mortasheen}}'' features an entire class of monster known as the Devilbirds inspired by Bosch's many depictions of demons with birdlike features.

* [[{{Tropers/Scythemantis}} Jonathan]] [[{{Website/Bogleech}} Wojcik's]] surreal RPG ''{{Mortasheen}}'' features an entire class of monster known as the Devilbirds inspired by Bosch's many depictions of demons with birdlike features.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Several: Creator/PieterBruegelTheElder, Creator/SalvadorDali, MaxErnst, Creator/JoanMiro, Creator/TerryGilliam, Creator/RobertCrumb,...

'''Hieronymus Bosch''' (1450-1516) was a [[UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands Dutch]] [[TheMiddleAges medieval]] painter, best known for his colorful and grotesque depictions of {{Hell}}. He made several paintings about the subject and nobody has ever come close to his vivid and creepy visions of the place: Ugly [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demons]] torturing people in complete agony and scenes which predate {{Surrealism}} by five centuries. Most of these strange NightmareFuel scenes are the product of symbolism that might be clear and understandable to a (noble or monied, and certainly educated) viewer in Bosch's age, but now, centuries later, can be difficult to decipher. Bosch's paintings show mankind in all of his corruptness and meanspiritness, doomed to end up in Hell, while only a few chosen ones will be allowed in {{Heaven}}. Even the Church is not spared in his fatal vision. He was able to depict north-west European society during {{the Late Middle Ages}} in a scathingly satirical and memorable light, one that continues to inspire artists to this day.

* PhallicWeapon: On the Hell panel of "The Garden Of Earthly Delights" a huge knife can been seen with two ears on the side. It looks suspiciously like...FreudWasRight.

* [[{{Tropers/Scythemantis}} Jonathan]] {{Website/Bogleech Wojcik's}} surreal RPG ''{{Mortasheen}}'' features an entire class of monster known as the Devilbirds inspired by Bosch's many depictions of demons with birdlike features.

* [[{{Tropers/Scythemantis}} Jonathan]] {{Website/Bogleech Wojcik's}} surreal RPG ''{{Mortasheen}}'' features an entire class of monster known as the Devilbirds inspired by Bosch's many depictions of demons with birdlike features.

* {{Tropers/Scythemantis Jonathan}} {{Website/Bogleech Wojcik's}} surreal RPG ''{{Mortasheen}}'' features an entire class of monster known as the Devilbirds inspired by Bosch's many depictions of demons with birdlike features.