Hieronymus Bosch, "The Garden of Earthly Delights" (circa 1480–1490) oil on panel, 153.2 x 86.6 inches, located in Madrid, Museo del Prado (image courtesy Wikimedia Commons) Around the turn of the ...

Dolls have always freaked me out. I do not attribute this to some formative trauma — I’ve never been attacked by dolls, and I have staunchly avoided any horror movies featuring them. But I still won’t ...

HIERONYMUS Bosch died 500 years ago, his soul dispatched to parts unknown - perhaps oblivion, perhaps heavenly peace, perhaps a hellscape of his own invention. His reputation, however, resides in ...

In any other painting, a naked butt tattooed with a musical score would be the first thing you’d notice. But it’s just another detail in Hieronymus Bosch’s masterpiece, The Garden of Earthly ...

In my living room, I am wearing a Google Cardboard headset and drinking my coffee. But in virtual reality, I’m on the back of a giant fish, flying through a smoldering apocalypse and surrounded by the ...

On the 500th anniversary of Hieronymus Bosch’s death, Fiona Macdonald picks out a few choice details from his most famous painting. It’s not the most auspicious of song titles. ‘The Music Written on ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Half a millennium ago in the tiny backwater of ’s-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands, a revolution took place in sacred ...