Bosch, Hieronymus

Bergman, Madeleine. Hieronymus Bosch and alchemy a study on the St Anthony Triptych. Stockholm studies in history of art, no. 31. Stockholm Almqvist Wiksell, 1979 or 1980. 

Joiner, Dorothy Marie. "Hieronymus Bosch and the esoteric tradition." UMI, 1982. 

Larsen, Erik. Hieronymus Bosch [the complete paintings by the visionary master]. New York Smithmark Pub, 1998. 149p. ISBN 0765108658... 

It is, however, self-explanatory that the human brain can only discover cognizable reality, understand natural laws, and make a use of this knowledge, but cannot create a world. In the center of the Mystic Lamb, the famous triptych painted by the van Eyck brothers before 1432, God the Almighty is a regally dressed, charming and attractive man who holds the insignia of power in his hands and has an admirable crown at his feet. The viewer is still shocked by the apocalyptic visions of Hieronymus Bosch. We meet in his paintings thousands and thousands of nonexistent creatures and objects. 

As an early background of its capacity to interplay with ascorbic acid, it is interesting to mention that pine bark was utilized against inflammation and also to overcome the symptoms of scurvy. Other uses of pine bark extract were suggested by the naturalist Hieronymus Bosch and included topical apphcation on skin ulcers and other skin disorders In the so-called New World, the bark of the pine was consumed by native Americans either as food or to obtain infusions to be utilized as a remedy for different diseases that are now recognized to have some free-radical involvement in inflammatory conditions. " ... 

In the Museo del Prado in Madrid, there is a wooden table-top with a painting by Hieronymus Bosch (ca. 1450-1516) The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things. [237] This table would once have been found in that suite of rooms in the Escorial, where PhUip II (1527-1598) lived (Fig. 5.103). 

Hieronymus Bosch "The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things". 

This chapter is concerned with the intemperance of food and drink. Apposite to the painting by Hieronymus Bosch, we read in Le livre des bonnes moeurs ( The Book of Good Manners ) by the Augustinian Friar Jacques Legrand (Jacobus Magnus, ca. 1365-1425) ... 

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