ACROBATIC STANDS
of humans, animals & demons all take place in a diabolical environment. The context (devils, temptations, Jewish or pagan buildings) leaves no doubt about their negative meaning.
<Vandenbroeck 1989.

They also symbolize the inverted world.
(Various Bosch works.)

NOT OFTEN SEEN
is Bosch Studio’s right wing of Last Judgment/Wien ~1500.
People find such panels overwhelming by the many details.

The trick is:
pick a scene & name what is there.
See image at right.
On a giant helmet sits a woman/demon(?)
Her owl means stupidity & evil.
A lizard is cooking a soul-

NOT OFTEN SEEN
is Bosch Studio’s right wing of Last Judgment/Wien ~1500.
People find such panels overwhelming by the many details.

The trick is:
pick a scene & name what is there.
See image at right.
On a giant helmet sits a woman/demon(?)
Her owl means stupidity & evil.
A lizard is cooking a soul-

NOT OFTEN SEEN
are images that @boschbot cannot post because there are no suitable high-res files available. For instance from the right panel of the Last Judgement/Vienna ~1500.

And that panel has much intriguing imagery, like this poor soul, surrounded by 5 sharp-beaked birds!

AFTER LAST JUDGMENT
The not often by Bosch shown journey of some judged:
first to Paradise, as the portal to heaven, where souls of the redeemed are later accepted into eternal light (not visible here). Detail from the Bruges triptych.
The beatific ones are brought to the temporary place by boat, accompanied by angel trumpeters.
Bosch is a bit ambiguous, as the boat consists mainly of a Love tent
(which he generally did not like!).

The RIGHT panel is one of 4 in Venice and shows the same place.

BIRDS (&c) BALANCING ON ANIMALS
are on more Bosch’s works.
So far, I counted some 14 scenes. They involve 13 birds or bird pairs,
2 Monkeys, 1 Rabbit.
Birds are elements of the medieval love allegory and largely negative. Love and earthly sexuality are significant here.

See Vandenbroeck 1989 P.182-.

Old Dutch saying:
“His name is never mentioned except with hat in hand.”

Detail, The Wayfarer -Hieronymus Bosch, ca.1500.
At the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
(Source proverbs: Harrebomée anthologies vol. 1 p. 283.)

HIERONYMUS BOSCH’S BULLS/OXEN
I found some 8.

Two are from the Tundall legend, with the man riding the animal. Or from Eden, or the Nativity’s stable.
Another links to the Zodiac sign:
because the man nearby has spring (Lust) on his mind?
In the wild men’s parade it also links to urges.

THE DIABOLIC BARN OWL
on Bosch’s Garden triptych, with its unnatural horn-like ears was associated with nocturnal demons.
Dirc van Delf 1404 compares Asmodeus, the devil of unchastity, to a barn owl:
“This is the devil of unchastity, who settles in sleeping rooms and wanders about…”
After Dr. De Bruyn 2023

DO notice one of the trio under the transparant semi-bubble looking rather flabbergasted in the direction of the Owl…