Renaissance radical: An earthly delight not to be missed In the midst of the realist-leaning artistic climate of the Late Gothic and Early Renaissance, Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450 1516) was more than an anomaly. Bosch s paintingsare populated with grotesque scenes of fantastical creatures succumbing to all manner of human desire, fantasy, and angst.One of his greatest inventions was to take the figural and scenic representations known as drolleries, which use the monstrous and the grotesque to illustrate sin and evil, and to...