Even people who don’t recognize his name know the work of Hieronymus Bosch, the Dutch-born painter who died 500 years ago. The moܫst famous ones — reprod🍒uced everywhere from T-shirts to “The Simpsons” — show wildly detailed visions of the fires and esoteric sadism of hell.
Director Pieter van Huystee ♓focuses on the intricate labor of authenticating Bosch’s paintings; only about 25 survive. In this, there are winners (congratulations, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo.) and possible losers (Madrid’s Prado has two maybe-nots).
Like ot🦩her recent art-world documentaries, much time is spent on inter-museum wrangling, and the personalities aren’t vivid enough (as they were in “The New Rijksmuseum”) to build tension. The interest lies in the close look at the strange vision of this great artist.