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The Garden of Earthly Delights (Dutch: De tuin der lusten, lit. 'The garden of lusts') is the modern title 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.
May 25, 2024 · The Garden of Earthly Delights, painting by Hiëronymus Bosch completed c. 1490–1500, which is representative of Bosch at his mature best. It depicts the earthly paradise with the creation of woman, the first temptation, and the Fall.
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The Garden of Earthly Delights Triptych. 1490 - 1500. Grisaille, Oil on oak panel. Room 056A. The Garden of Earthly Delights is Bosch’s most complex and enigmatic creation.
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Oct 18, 2019 · Few artworks sum up the wild ecstasy and weirdness of lust better than Hieronymus Bosch’s famed triptych Garden of Earthly Delights (1490–1500). The dominant subject of the painting is fleshy pleasure.
- The origins of Hieronymus Bosch remain a mystery. Surprisingly little is known about the influential artist. We don’t know his birth date, level of education, or even who his patrons were.
- Bosch didn't date his paintings. Since little is known about Bosch and he didn’t date his work, art historians have made their best estimate by taking into consideration a number of factors, including the age of the wood panels and the inclusion of a pineapple—a New World fruit that means it must be painted after Columbus’s voyage to America.
- It's bigger than you may realize. When open, this large-scale artwork measures a little over 7 feet tall and almost 13 feet long. The center panel alone is 6.5 feet wide.
- Oil paint was still a fairly new medium when the triptych was painted. Bosch painted The Garden of Earthly Delights using oil paint on oak panels. At the time, oil paint was still less than 100 years old.
Dec 6, 2023 · 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.
Jun 30, 2021 · The Garden of Earthly Delights is a triptych painted by the master Hieronymus Bosch (c.1450-1516) — an Early Netherlandish painter. It has been housed in Madrid’s Museo Del Prado since 1939. Dating between 1490 and 1510, when Bosch was about 40 (or 50) years old, it is one of his best known and most ambitious works.
