Artsmarts
Animal passion: what Bosch has in common with weird pictures from medieval manuscripts
It is naive to think that the fantasy of Hieronymus Bosch, even so much unique, arose “out of nothing”, or originated spontaneously in a single eccentric head. All his subjects - people, animals, some other creatures — whether a learned locust, or a loving nun pig, or a dragon with horse legs and the body of a roasted turkey, or a bird in a cardinal’s cassock, with a funnel on its head and…
