"Beyond Bosch"

Joannes van Doetecum: "The Besieging of an Elephant"
Based on the work of Hieronymus Bosch.

The special exhibit titled "Beyond Bosch: The Afterlife of a Renaissance Master in Print" at the St. Louis Art Museum is currently showing a fascinating collection of prints "inspired by Bosch's unique legacy of artistic invention." I've always loved the work of Bosch, so I very much enjoyed seeing this exhibit.

Several of these reinterpretations of the bizarre imagery from the works of Bosch depicted rather crazy scenes of eating:

Dotectum: "Foul Sauce."

Unknown engraver: "The Dinner Party or Song of the Gluttons."

Pieter van der Heyden: "Shrove Tuesday"

From the exhibit description:

"Printmaking flourished in Bosch's lifetime, but only a small handful of engravings by his contemporary Alart du Hameel have any potential connection with Bosch himself. The Boschian print phenomenon truly exploded after the artist's death in the mid-16th century under the aegis of the pioneering Antwerp print publisher Hieronymus Cock, and maintained force into the 17th century. These later prints are not literal reproductions of known works by the artist. Rather, they are images inspired by Bosch's unique legacy of artistic invention."