European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 23, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Fantastic my big a world detail from Christ carrying the Cross shows Bosch s skill at making realistic faces reflect evil. Section of the cure of Folly shows some of puzzling details included by Bosch funnel for hat Book balanced on head. A Hieronymus Bosch Page 12 vision of Hondalus is Bosch version of dream of 12th Century Irish Knight sleeping lower left of hades. The stars and stripes mondays october 23, 1967 the world of Hieronymus Bosch the great 15th Century dutch allegorical Painter is not one to been tired casually a passing glance can trap the Eye and possibly the mind of the beholder who finds himself lost in a world that seems solid and fixed but slowly becomes a macabre night Mare where imaginary animals cavort and frolic often with naked human victims dangling from fanged jaws. Consider just one of the More commonplace works of Bosch the cure of Folly or More traditionally  of the  at first glance the work seems to be a rather quaint medieval operation a Man sits in a chair while another with a knife seems to be opening his Skull. Another Man with a Pitcher gestures toward them to the right a woman sits leaning Casu ally on a table. But a closer second look sets the mind ajar the doctor is wearing an inverted funnel on his head. The woman is balancing a Book on her head. The patient has a Flower growing out of his head where the doctor is cutting. Several cities loom on the horizon an behind the doctor is a grim Gallows. An inscription reads master Cut the Stone Quick. My name is Lubbert  what does it All add up to critics hold that it is a representation of Folly and deceit with a quack doctor operating on a peasant to cure his stupidity. But All the details Only the Man who took the name of the City where he worked knows and he died in 1516oneof the few bits of information about Bosch that Are considered absolutely valid. And incidentally the critics Aren absolutely sure that the cure is by Bosch after All what is known of this great artist of the medieval times very Little confess by Sam Bauman staff writer the organizers of a massive showing of Bosch works in his Hometown of s Herto Tenbosch a brewing and Indus trial City some 50 Miles South of Amsterdam. The exhibit which closes nov.15, boasts what is undoubtedly the greatest assemblage of Bosch s work and copies fakes and replicas Ever gathered under one roof 45 panels he worked often on wood17 drawings manuscripts and two films about Bosch. But history about the artist it Justin t available and perhaps that is part of the reason his mystical paintings continue to intrigue. It is known that his family originally came from Aachen and thus took the came of Van taken when they relocated in Bois de Duc the French version of s Herto Tenbosch some time in or around the end of the14th Century. The artist s father was probably a certain Laurens Van  documents do show that Hieronymus often anglicized to Jerome was born in s Herto Tenbosch but not when they also indicate he worked there from1480 to 1516 and his funeral was held there in 1516. Bosch apparently lived a financially secure life. His works were avidly collected throughout Europe particularly in Spain a land with which his eerie works have a certain kinship Madrid s Prado has one of the Best collections of Bosch in the world. Bosch probably decided to express his ideas by symbols for a variety of Rea sons possibly to escape Church criticism possibly because he feared a More direct rendering would Rouse the Placid flemish merchants to opposition. As a child of his age he mature Din an Era when the mystical Side of christianity was Strong when a firm belief in witches was not unusual. Hieronymus Bosch or at least some experts think this is he. It it also appears that he married Asin 1531 an inheritance was settled on the widow of Hieronymus Bosch. But when he took the name of the City As his own what artists he saw who influenced his Art How he lived not a Trace. He founded no school had no disciples he merely blazed his own path created his own world and the vanished into it. Of the great flemish artists he stands alone. His Only common Bonds were some techniques a Distant for of tempera and the Fresco and perspective. But for All his unique Quali ties the very sort of thing that usually makes an artist s life a difficult thing that cuts him off from material gain be had a rare ability to join heaven Earth and hell into a Unity and he Long anticipated modern psychiatry with some of his peeks into the dark nooks of men s minds. Bosch apparently sought to create a world where sin was personified by weird mixture of animal life a Wolf headed Lizard a Feather beaked  chose to make his Points by allegory by irony by distortion and thus anticipated much Art of the 20th Century. Does the very private world of Hieronymus Bosch have a meaning to the viewer of today is his world of Symbol too removed from the reality of now to be valid is his vision Tor special to transcend the Barrier of time from the crowds that group around his last judgment in the alte Pina Kotek in Munich Cluster about his the Crown of thorns at the Prado it seems Bosch still Speaks clearly. Some of his message May be muffled by the Lack of shared Middle Ages background but the incisive Eye of the master and the moralist Are still As fascinating Tod Ayas four centuries ago. The stars and stripes Page 13