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b_b  ·  3962 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Christ Carrying the Cross - Hieronymus Bosch

Was there ever an artist of any era in the rest of history so far ahead of his time?





alpha0  ·  3961 days ago  ·  link  ·  
kleinbl00  ·  3962 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, da Vinci for one.

Picasso for another.

Probably Vermeer.

As far as weird surreality that didn't exactly influence the rest of the world but appears anachronistically ahead of its time, he's up there with Richard Dadd:

I dig Bosch in his own way but he's not that much weirder than a lot of his contemporaries.

b_b  ·  3962 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Da Vinci, certainly. He basically transcends the title of artist, given his contributions to so many other fields. I once read a history of neuroscience that claimed that he was far and away the preeminent anatomist of his time.

thenewgreen  ·  3962 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You have favorite works of his?