Bosch Garden Of Earthly Delights
It has been housed in the museo del prado in madrid since the year 1939.
Bosch garden of earthly delights. Taking readers through each panel belting discusses various schools of thought and explores boschs life and times. Few paintings inspire the kind of intense study and speculation as garden of earthly delights the world famous triptych by netherlandish master hieronymus bosch. The painting has been interpreted as a heretical masterpiece an opulent illustration of the creation and a premonition. Vallese gloria il tema della follia nell arte di bosch.
1480 1505 oil on panel 220 x 390 cm prado madrid deciphering the indecipherable to write about hieronymus boschs triptych known to the modern age as the garden of earthly delights is to attempt to describe the indescribable and to decipher the indecipherablean exercise in madness. He compares boschs vision with the humanistic theories of thomas more and willibald. Hieronymus bosch the garden of earthly delights c. Rooth anna birgitta fran loegnsaga till paradis upsala 1983 pp.
Iconografia e stile paragone 34. Hans belting here offers his own interpretation of the garden of earthly delights the luminous triptych by the dutch painter hieronymus bosch which he sees not as apocalyptic but utopian.