Saint Christopher Carrying the Christ Child
Hieronymus Bosch · 1500
Why it's great
A giant saint wades through a river carrying a small boy on his shoulders, in a weird landscape with a strange tree and a tiny creature. Hieronymus Bosch painted it in about 1500.
Where to see it
📍 Museum Boijmans Van BeuningenRotterdam, Netherlands
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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.
