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The Garden of Earthly Delights (Dutch: De tuin der lusten, lit. 'The garden of lusts') is the modern title [a] 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. [1]
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. For Falkenburg the overall theme of The Garden of Earthly Delights is the fate of humanity, as in The Haywain (P02052), although Bosch visualizes this concept very ...
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.
There have been numerous theories around Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights (c. 1480 to 1505) triptych. Some believed it is about the fall of man into sin and lust, eventually meeting his own fate in Hell. Some believe it was painted for religious and moralistic purposes.
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.
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. Nonetheless, there are a few points that can be made with certainty before it all unravels.
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.