Christ Carrying the Cross
Hieronymus Bosch · 1505
Why it's great
Christ bears the cross while a crowd presses around him, and the faces are painted as strange and ugly. Hieronymus Bosch painted it in about 1505.
Where to see it
📍 Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El EscorialSan Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain
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Hieronymus Bosch was a Dutch painter, born in the town of 's-Hertogenbosch around 1450. He lived there all his life and painted strange, crowded visions of heaven, hell and human foolishness filled with monsters and tiny details. He died in 's-Hertogenbosch in 1516.
