Hieronymus Bosch

Almost precisely the contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci, that emblem of the Renaissance, Hieronymus Bosch epitomizes the Middle Ages with its bitter vision of the endless ways in which man sins. This program covers the array of Bosch's work collected by Philip II and housed in the Prado, showing the depth and detail of Bosch's pictorialization of man's way on Earth, painted in extraordinary, imaginative detail, the more extraordinary because Bosch, arguably the greatest medieval painter worked in the middle of the Renaissance.