NameHieronymus BoschLife Dates1450-1516CountryNetherlandsMovementNorthern Renaissance Hieronymus Bosch BiographyBosch's pictures have always fascinated viewers, but in earlier centuries it was widely assumed that his diabolic scenes were intended merely to amuse or titillate, most people regarded him as "the inventor of monsters and chimeras." Philip II, though, collected his works more for educat