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The Garden of Earthly Delights ( Dutch: De tuin der lusten, lit. 'The garden of lusts') is the modern title [a] given to a triptych oil painting on oak panel painted by the Early Netherlandish master Hieronymus Bosch, between 1490 and 1510, when Bosch was between 40 and 60 years old. [1] It has been housed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid ...
The extraordinary The Garden of Earthly Delights is a large triptych, almost 13 feet (4 m) wide when fully open, that depicts Bosch’s account of the world, with the Garden of Eden on the left, hell on the right, and the human world of fickle love moving toward depravity in the centre, a theatre of the frivolous pursuit of ephemeral pleasure.
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- Deciphering the indecipherable. To write about Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych, known to the modern age as The Garden of Earthly Delights, is to attempt to describe the indescribable and to decipher the indecipherable—an exercise in madness.
- The Outer Panels. Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, c. 1480-1505, oil on panel, 220 x 390 cm (Prado) God (detail of outer panels) Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, c. 1480-1505, oil on panel, 220 x 390 cm (Prado)
- The First Panel: God Introduces Eve to Adam (and All Hell Breaks Loose) Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, c. 1480-1505, oil on panel, 220 x 390 cm (Prado)
- The Central Panel – People Nakedly Cavort (and All Hell Breaks Loose) This is the panel from which the title Garden of Earthly Delights was derived. Here Bosch’s humans, the offspring of Adam and Eve, gambol freely in a surrealistic paradisiacal garden, appearing as mad manifestations of a whimsical creator—sensate cogs of nature alive in a larger, animate machine.
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Oct 18, 2019 · The story of Garden of Earthly Delights begins, of course, with its enigmatic creator. While Bosch’s biographical details have been difficult to pin down, historians know that he was born as Jeroen van Aken around 1450 to a family of artists rooted in the once-bustling city of Hertogenbosch, currently in the Netherlands.
- Deciphering the indecipherable. To write about Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych, known to the modern age as The Garden of Earthly Delights, is to attempt to describe the indescribable and to decipher the indecipherable—an exercise in madness.
- The outer panels. God (detail of outer panels), Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, c. 1480-1505, oil on panel, 220 x 390 cm (Prado) When the triptych is in the closed position (above), the outer panels, painted in grisaille (monochrome), join to form a perfect sphere—a vision of a planet-shaped clear glass vessel half-filled with water, interpreted to be either the depiction of the Flood, or day three of God’s creation of the world (which has to do with the springing forth of flowers, plants and trees, in which case he’s guilty of heedless over-watering).
- The first panel: God Introduces Eve to Adam (and all hell breaks loose) Detail, Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, c. 1480-1505, oil on panel, 220 x 390 cm (Prado)
- The central panel: People nakedly cavort (and all hell breaks loose) This is the panel from which the title Garden of Earthly Delights was derived. Here Bosch’s humans, the offspring of Adam and Eve, gambol freely in a surrealistic paradisiacal garden, appearing as mad manifestations of a whimsical creator—sensate cogs of nature alive in a larger, animate machine.
May 16, 2023 · The Garden of Earthly Delights is the modern title given to a triptych on oak panel painted by the Early Netherlandish master , housed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid since 1939. It dates from between 1490 and 1510, when Bosch was between 40 and 60 years old. As so little is known of Bosch's life or intentions, interpretations of his intent ...
The Garden of Earthly Delights is a folding triptych, the left and right panels fold inwards, and when closed it the outside of the panels display a meditative image of the world during its creation, painted in the gray-green grisaille common to Netherlandish triptychs of the time. A moment of solemnity before revealing the leaping madness inside.
