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Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 30
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: The Garden of Earthly Delights, Christ Crowned with Thorns, List of paintings by Hieronymus Bosch, The Epiphany, Hieronymus Bosch drawings, The Conjurer, Ecce Homo, The temptation of St. Anthony in visual arts, The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things, The Haywain Triptych, The Temptation of St Anthony, Cutting the Stone, Death and the Miser, The Last Judgment, Paradise and Hell, Concert in the Egg, Ship of Fools, The Marriage Feast at Cana, The Crucifixion of St Julia, The Wayfarer, St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness, Christ Carrying the Cross, Allegory of Gluttony and Lust, St. John the Evangelist on Patmos, Christ Child with a Walking Frame, Terrestrial Paradise, St. Jerome at Prayer, Fall of the Damned into Hell, Adoration of the Child, St. Christopher Carrying the Christ Child, The Hermit Saint, Crucifixion with a Donor, Head of a Halberdier, Death of the Reprobate, Ascent of the Blessed, Two Male Heads, Head of a Woman. Excerpt: The Garden of Earthly Delights is a triptych painted by the early Netherlandish master Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516), housed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid since 1939. Dating from between 1490 and 1510, when Bosch was about 40 or 50 years old, it is his best-known and most ambitious work. It reveals the artist at the height of his powers; in no other painting does he achieve such complexity of meaning or such vivid imagery. The triptych is painted in oil and comprises a square middle panel flanked by two rectangular wings that can close over the center as shutters. These outer wings, when folded shut, display a grisaille painting of the earth during the Creation. The three scenes of the inner triptych are probably (but not necessarily) intended to be read chronologically from left to right. The left panel depicts God presenting Adam to Eve, while the central panel is a...