Art review: ‘The seven deadly sins’ by Jheronimus Bosch, early 1500s.

This article was originally a thread on social media, which is why it is formatted with lots of images and short responses.The text is about the image below that paragraph. Jheronimus Bosch (1450 – 1516), also known as Jeroen Bosch of Hiëronymus Bosch is one of my favourite artists, this review is about ‘The seven deadly sins’: At the top it says something like“These enemies are so short-sighted, they lack any understanding.If they were wise, they would have insight and understand how things will turn out for themselves”: In the middle we have Christ in a sort of eyeball and in Latin it says something like; Beware, beware the lord sees! And he looks well disappointed: At the bottom it says something like: “I will turn away from them and see how they fare.”.Which sounds like a bit of a threat… The texts come from Deuteronomy 32:28–29: The painting has 5 circles, the one in the middle displaying the 7 deadly sins, the 4 in the corners scenes related to death and the afterlife. Let’s…