Walking home through Maynooth this evening, the streets filled with partying students, I was reminded of this:
It’s the central part of the triptych Das letzte Gericht (The Last Judgment) by Hieronymus Bosch. The medium is oil on oak panel and it measures 164 x 127 cm. The original work is in the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
The figures at the top, looking down on the chaos, are clearly identifiable as members of academic staff, while those below are students. I’m sure that if Christmas jumpers had been invented in 1486, when the work is thought to have been completed, Bosch would have painted a few in…
In the Dark 