# Studies of Monsters

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## Artwork

- Artist: [BOSCH, Hieronymus](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bosch-hieronymus-r0d0cb96519d18e>)
- Date: 1451-1500
- Technique: Pen and bistre, 318 x 210 mm

## Commentary

In a group of drawings attributed to Bosch with reasonable certainty, monsters proliferate in a multitude of shapes, no two exactly alike. Legs sprout from grotesquely grinning heads, obscene bladder-like forms develop snouts and legs; some creatures are all head or rump. This taste for monsters Bosch shared with his age, which was fascinated by the grotesque and the unnatural.

## Related artworks

- [Adoration of the Child](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bosch-hieronymus-r0d0cb96519d18e/adoration-of-the-child-r5ca4029fbf006a>)
- [Adoration of the Magi \(central panel\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bosch-hieronymus-r0d0cb96519d18e/adoration-of-the-magi-central-panel-r133615a6079433>)
- [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bosch-hieronymus-r0d0cb96519d18e/adoration-of-the-magi-detail-r31d3fd71420970>)
- [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bosch-hieronymus-r0d0cb96519d18e/adoration-of-the-magi-detail-r48b31b1fc2a309>)
- [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bosch-hieronymus-r0d0cb96519d18e/adoration-of-the-magi-detail-ra6c03b14dd7ed3>)
- [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bosch-hieronymus-r0d0cb96519d18e/adoration-of-the-magi-detail-re04e152a360585>)
- [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bosch-hieronymus-r0d0cb96519d18e/adoration-of-the-magi-detail-re7f97c08cf8231>)
- [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bosch-hieronymus-r0d0cb96519d18e/adoration-of-the-magi-detail-rf54db08d078e21>)
- [Allegory of Gluttony and Lust](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bosch-hieronymus-r0d0cb96519d18e/allegory-of-gluttony-and-lust-rc7aa244c0e9e78>)
- [Animal studies](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bosch-hieronymus-r0d0cb96519d18e/animal-studies-r4d75e2f219759a>)
- [Beehive and Witches](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bosch-hieronymus-r0d0cb96519d18e/beehive-and-witches-r764229d5684262>)
- [Beggars and Cripples](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bosch-hieronymus-r0d0cb96519d18e/beggars-and-cripples-rb525cf1945bf9a>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)