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Paintings By Bosch

The chronology of Bosch's paintings is highly controversial. A small group of biblical scenes and didactic genre paintings, characterized by stiff, awkwardly placed figures and hard, sharp brushwork, are generally accepted as early works.

The themes of his painting - including The Ship of Fools, (Louvre, Paris), The Stone Operation (Prado, Madrid), and the Seven Deadly Sins (Prado, Madrid) - are those of contemporary satirical writing.

Bosch castigates the vices of charlatans and quacks, of rich men, and of lecherous monks and nuns.

The Haywain Triptych (c.1485-1490)

The subject of The Haywain was new in Netherlandish art.

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The inner and outer wings show the Creation and Fall of Man (inner) and Hell (outer). On the central panel a crowd of demons pulls a vast haycart, with a pair of lovers on top, towards hell. Behind ride dignitaries of Church and State, while beside it an unruly mob fight over handfuls