Jheronimus van Aken, better known as Jheronimus Bosch, belonged to a family of painters spanning six generations; his earliest artistic forebears came to Nijmegen (Duchy of Guelders) from Aachen -if, as is presumed, “Aken” was their original surname- and later settled in ‘s-Hertogenbosch.There are still many gaps in the biography of Jheronimus Bosch. We do not know, for example, where his parents