His avowedly title was Hieronymus (or even Jeroen) van Aken. He signed a few of his paintings using Bosch (pronounced when Boss around Dutch), from either his birthplace 's-Hertogenbosch. Inside Spanish he is often known as El Bosco.

Natural to the personal of Flemish painters, he spent virtually all of his life within 's-Hertogenbosch, a town in the south of today's Netherlands. Inside 1463, a select few 4000 houses in the town were destroyed by a ruinous fire, which the so just about 13-month-old Bosch could keep close at hand found. This may stand been the contributive factor out his obsession by using Hell. He became the popular painter & potentially received commissions from either overseas. Around 1488 he joined a Brotherhood of My Lady, an arc conservative religious class action of a select few Forty influential citizens of 's-Hertogenbosch.

Style and works
He produced many triptychs, works of three paintings in wooden panels that come connected to every more. Among his best known is The Garden of Earthly Delights. This triptych depicts paradise sustaining Adam and Eve & many wondrous creature on a left panel, the earthly delights by owning many bare numbers & wow fruit & birds on the middle panel, and hell with depictions of fantastic penalization of the various types of sinners on the right panel.

These paintings have a rough out surface from either a application of paint; this contrasts by having a traditional Flemish style of paintings, in which a smooth surface tries to hide a fact that a painting is human-synthetic.

His more works include his Ship of Fools painting.

Towards a prevent of his life, Bosch's style changed & he created paintings by having a little total of big numbers world health organization pop up to all but leave a painting & have some the observer. An case is The Crowning with Thorns.

Bosch never dated his paintings & signed just a select few of the babies. On the whole, astir Twenty-five paintings remain now that come attributed to him. Philip II of Spain bought many of Bosch's paintings when a painter's dying; following, a Prado Museum in Madrid now owns several of his works, including a Garden of Earthly Delights.

Pieter Brueghel the Elder was influenced by Bosch's act & produced many paintings inside a similar style, e.g. the 1562 work The Triumph of Death.

List of works
The Extraction of the Stone of Madness (The Cure of Folly) (after 1500) in the Prado Museum, Madrid The Epiphany (The Adoration of the Magi) (1495–1499) in the Prado Museum in Madrid and another version in the Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia St. Christopher Carrying the Christ Child (1490–1500) in the Museum Boymans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things (1500–1510) in the Prado Museum in Madrid St. John the Evangelist on Patmos (after 1490) in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin The Marriage Feast at Cana (1500) copy in the Museum Boymans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam Christ Carrying the Cross (1485–1490) in the Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Ghent, a second version in the Kunsthistorische Museum in Vienna, and the third version in the Palacio Real in Madrid Ecce Homo (1485–1490) in the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia (follower), and original version in the Städel Museum in Frankfurt (1495) Haywain (1500–1515) (triptych) as a copy in El Escorial in Madrid, and a original in the Prado Museum in Madrid as well Death of the Miser (1490) in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, and an additional version in the Museo Nacional de Arte Antiq in Lisbon Allegory of Gluttony and Lust (1490–1500) in the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven The Temptation of St. Anthony in the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, and another version in the Prado Museum in Madrid,both followers, and the original version (triptych) in the Museo Nacional de Arte Antiq in Lisbon(1502/03) The Ship of Fools (1500) in the Louvre in Paris The Wayfarer (1500–1502) in the Museum Boymans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam The Garden of Earthly Delights (1504) (triptych) in the Prado Museum in Madrid The Last Judgement (1505) in the Academie für Bildenden Künste in Vienna St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness (after 1490) in the Museo Lazaro Galdian in Madrid Ascent of the Blessed (1500s) in the Palazzo Ducale in Venice Christ Crowned with Thorns (1500s) in El Escorial in Madrid (Bosch-follower)and original version in the National Gallery in London(1495) The Conjurer (1500s) in the Musée Municipal in St.-Germain-en-Laye Fall of the Damned (1500s) in the Palazzo Ducale in Venice The House of Ill Fame (1500s) in the Museum Boymans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam St. Jerome at Prayer (1500s) in the Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Ghent Terrestrial Paradise (1500s) in the Palazzo Ducale in Venice

Bibliography
Jos Koldeweij/Bernard Vermet/Barbera van Kooij: Hieronymus Bosch. Recently Insights Into His Life & Operate'', NAi Publishers, Rotterdam 2001, ISBN 90-5662-214-Five.