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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.
May 16, 2023 · The Garden of Earthly Delights is the modern title given to a triptych oil painting on oak panel painted by the Early Netherlandish master Hieronymus Bosch, 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.
- 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.
Depicting a fantastically surreal world that ranges from orgiastic pleasure to terrifying horror, Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights has fascinated the public for centuries.
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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.
