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Originally Posted by kellychaos
What's with the owls in his work? Is that some sort of symbology I'm not getting?
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Actually, very little is known about Bosch. We barely have enough information on the guy to fill out a passport. Quite frustrating really.
I do recall reading somewhere that some things in his paintings may have been literal interpretations of Dutch proverbs and idioms. Kind of like showing that someone is a asshole (as in a jerk) by painting them as a big sphinchter with legs.
We do know that he did get married, and that he was inducted into some kind of guild of church artists, so he couldn't have been totally insane.