Tree Man Wearing Boat Shoes Hybrid Fantasy Creature Statue Hieronymus Bosch 5H

Many recognize a self-portrait in one of Bosch's most famous hybrid creatures, Tree Man. The hollow space in the egg-shaped body offers space for a pub. All break adrift through the two boats where the tree-shaped paws are situated. Music and dance may have led to licentiousness, symbolized by the bagpipes on the headgear. This figurine reproduces in 3D a character in Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights painting.

• This meticulously reproduced collectible art work is part of the 3D Mouseion Sculpture Collection made by Parastone, a renowned European collectible manufacturer. (PN JB01)
• Tree Man Statue is made from resin with hand painted color details. Measures: 5 in x 3.5 in x 3 in. Weight 0.4 lbs.
• It is one of the odd figures which appears in Hieronymus Bosch's painting Garden of Earthly Delights.
• Small collectible figurine for your desk or office bookshelf.

ABOUT THE ARTWORK: THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS
Hieronymus Bosch shows us how we mortal souls, arisen from earthly paradise, are on our way to the atrocious ordeals of hell via our unchaste lives on earth. The dark painting on the closed panels shows the Creation, surrounded by water, in accordance with medieval traditions.

Art History

ABOUT THE ART PERIOD: From an artistic point of view, the world famous brilliant forerunner of surrealism was, in his day, unique and radically different. Hieronymus (Jeroen for short) Bosch was born (ca. 1450-1516) during the transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance in s-Hertogenbosch, in the Duchy of Brabant. Bosch places visionary images in a hostile world full of mysticism, with the conviction that the human being, due to its own stupidity and sinfulness has become prey to the devil himself. He holds a mirror to the world with his cerebral irony and magical symbolism, sparing no one. He aims his mocking arrows equally well at the hypocrisy of the clergy as the extravagance of the nobility and the immorality of the people. Hieronymus Bosch's style arises from the tradition of the book illuminations (manuscript illustrations from the Middle Ages). The caricature representation of evil tones down its terrifying implications, but also serves as a defiant warning with a theological basis.