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Among the modern filmmakers we could find a lot of admirers of Caravaggio, Goya or Rembrandt. However, no artist affected the cinematographic picture of the world so effectively as Hieronymus Bosch, a horror maker of the Middle Ages, an honorable professor of nightmares, the artist whose successors have not been able to fiddle his heritage away for 500 years. Somebody borrows his motives, the…

The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch could be considered as a cryptographic painting, which should be deciphered while eyeing. Saints and sinners, gods and monsters, books, notes, berries and buttocks are the letters and signs arranged in different ways to make different messages from XVI century. We have to be cautious and careful underestimating their effect; the set of letters…

Probably in the history of art we have never met  a character whose personality would stir such kind of a public interest and at the same time would be covered with so heavy fog. We know little about Hieronymus Bosch; historians even do not know the exact date of his birth. However,  audacious hypothesis would reign if facts are not enough.