This highly fictionalized look at an obscure Dutch artist is meant to be tongue-in-cheek. It creates a loveable character who flip-flops between sin and righteousness. He is an extraordinarily gifted painter, but he paints under protest. Of the few facts actually known about him, one is that as a boy, he almost certainly witnessed the burning of his birthplace, Hertogenbosch, in what is now the Netherlands. One of the other is his marriage to Aleid Goyaerts van den Meerveen. Heironymus Bosch's birth name was Jeroenimus Anthonissen van Aken, we will get to know him as Jeroen.