Hieronymus Bosch ~ The Garden of Earthly Delights
Header Photo: The Garden of Earthly Delights, c. 1503 (Detail from left panel, Garden of Eden - Paradise).
View panel here. A huge scan so just start from the top and slowly take in all the splendours. Astonishing experience.
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The Garden of Earthly Delights: Notes - Gallery
Hieronymus Bosch: Complete Gallery - The Ascent of the BlessedChrist Carrying the Cross - The Conjurer Notes - The Conjurer - The Garden of Earthly Delights Notes - The Garden of Earthly Delights - Haywain - The Hermit Saints - The Last Judgement - Left and right panels of a triptych - Seven Deadly Sins - Notes - Seven Deadly Sins - St. John the Evangelist on Patmos - Temptation of St Anthony - The Temptation of St. Anthony (Recluse)
Hieronymus Bosch: Biography I - Biography II - Gallery - Trivia
Hieronymus Bosch Wares: Bosch Canvas Prints - Bosch Parastone Sculptures - Bosch Official Cards - Bosch 2015 Calendar - Bosch Posters - Bosch Complete Works Book Review - Bosch (Taschen Basic Art Series)
Bosch Links: Bosch Sculptures @ ebay.com (direct link to sculptures) - just checked and a bigger selection than I have seen anywhere else - Advertise here - Hieronymus Bosch Books available @ amazon.com (direct link)
The Garden of Earthly Delights ~ Notes
This is the big one. The most important work in an oeuvre of monumental works. When the panels are closed, the painting on the outer wings shows the Earth as a disk floating obliquely within a larger circle (see below). When the triptych is open the lateral wings show a form of Eden and Hell. The triptych takes its name from the central panel (a modern title). Tis The Garden of Earthly Delights.
The whole piece is a form of beautiful Surrealism nearly five hundred years before Andre Breton was even born.
Relish the obscure. This is as obscure as it gets: we do not even know the original title of the piece. The Garden of Earthly Delights takes us to the outer reaches of the imagination - it's a one-way ticket and it's a paradise without earthly sin or a Christian Heaven. It's just an imaginary, luminous world. It is erotic beyond words.
What makes the piece, for me, the ultimate in surrealism, is the fact that we just do not know enough about the piece and why it is what it is. Art critics can give opinions but no-one can nail Bosch's work down because there is not enough hard fact. Books have been devoted to it but read them at your peril: they took me further away from the work than before I read them. All I can say is the work moves me in a primeval way that Dali, Magritte or Ernst never have. Just look at it and don't think: just let it wash over you. It will all hit the subconscious or bits of it will.
The Garden of Earthly Delights ~ Gallery
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The Garden of Earthly Delights, (Triptych)
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The Garden of Earthly Delights, (Detail)
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The Garden of Earthly Delights, (Detail from right panel)
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The Garden of Earthly Delights, (Exterior Panels)
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The Garden of Earthly Delights, Detail
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The Garden of Earthly Delights, Detail from central panel (Humankind before the Flood)
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The Garden of Earthly Delights, Detail from left panel (Fountain Of Life with owl)
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The Garden of Earthly Delights, Detail from left panel (pond)
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The Garden of Earthly Delights, Detail from left panel, (Amphibia and fish)
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The Garden of Earthly Delights, Detail from left panel, (Fountain Of Life)
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The Garden of Earthly Delights, Detail from inner right wing, (Hell)
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The Garden of Earthly Delights, Detail
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The Garden of Earthly Delights, Detail from central panel (Stone Formation)
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The Garden of Earthly Delights, Detail from central panel (fictional fruit)
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The Garden of Earthly Delights, Detail from central panel (bird feeding men)
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Beautiful The Garden of Earthly Delights Canvas Print
Hieronymus Bosch Links
The Garden of Earthly Delights: Notes - Gallery
Hieronymus Bosch: Complete Gallery - The Ascent of the BlessedChrist Carrying the Cross - The Conjurer Notes - The Conjurer - The Garden of Earthly Delights Notes - The Garden of Earthly Delights - Haywain - The Hermit Saints - The Last Judgement - Left and right panels of a triptych - Seven Deadly Sins - Notes - Seven Deadly Sins - St. John the Evangelist on Patmos - Temptation of St Anthony - The Temptation of St. Anthony (Recluse)
Hieronymus Bosch: Biography I - Biography II - Gallery - Trivia
Hieronymus Bosch Wares: Bosch Canvas Prints - Bosch Parastone Sculptures - Bosch Official Cards - Bosch 2015 Calendar - Bosch Posters - Bosch Complete Works Book Review - Bosch (Taschen Basic Art Series)
Bosch Links: Bosch Sculptures @ ebay.com (direct link to sculptures) - just checked and a bigger selection than I have seen anywhere else - Advertise here - Hieronymus Bosch Books available @ amazon.com (direct link)
