Bosch: Heaven, Hell and the Soul of an Age

Nothing quite prepares you for Hieronymus Bosch. His teeming, hallucinatory visions — naked bodies, demons, impossible hybrids, landscapes that seem to belong to a dream — remain as bewildering and mesmerising today as when they were painted five centuries ago. Focusing on the magnificent “Garden of Earthly Delights”, this talk unpacks the dense religious symbolism and dark moral vision that lies beneath the surface of Bosch’s proto-surrealism, and asks what this singular genius tells us about the fears and obsessions of his age.