The Vision of Tondalys, unknown, is a medium-sized oil painting (300plexis x 227plexis) currently on display at the Denver Art Museum. This unknown artist imitated Hieronymus Bosch's image in 1485 and created his own imagination of hell on the right of the painting. The entire painting details what the artist imagined hell to be like and indirectly shows Bosch's religious style in expressing the torments of hell to viewers. In the late 1400s, most painters created religious paintings to teach moral lessons to people, some of whom chose sacred subjects, such as the sky and angels, to inspire the faithful to lead good lives. Others, like Bosch, preferred to use fear, scaring people away from sin. Hieronymus Bosch, one of the first Dutch painters, used fantastic images to illustrate religious and moral definitions, he was the first surrealist painter. He used many original creative signs, symbols and figures such as half-animals and half-humans, demons and machines. After examining most of his works, it is not difficult to identify his personal themes: heaven and hell. For example, in this one ...