Peter Sheppard Skærved and Hieronymus Bosch’s “Death and the Miser� | National Gallery of Art https://www.nga.gov/stories/sound-thoughts-art/peter-sheppard-skaerved-and-hieronymus-boschs-death-and-miser
Violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved and National Gallery director Kaywin Feldman discuss Hieronymus Bosch’s Death and the Miser and its symbolism of contrast: light and dark, life and death. Skærved plays a 17th-century violin sonatina that echoes similar contrasts of sensuality and fatality, beauty and mortality.
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