Dutch painter of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Born to a family of Dutch and German painters, he spent most of his life in 's-Hertogenbosch, a flourishing city in fifteenth century Brabant. Many of his works depict sin and human moral failings and contain complex, highly original, imaginative, symbolic figures and iconography. Bosch produced several triptychs, among his most famous is The Garden of Earthly Delights, in which is depicted heaven on one panel, hell on the other, and in between them , the garden of earthly delights.