ÿØÿà JFIF ,, ÿþ(BOSCH, Hieronymus (b. cca. 1450, s'Hertogenbosch, d. 1516, s'Hertogenbosch) Garden of Earthly Delights (central panel of the triptych) c. 1500 Oil on panel, 220 x 195 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The picture shows the Garden of Delights. The enigmatic and strange fantasies that people the work of Bosch earned him enormous fame even in his own lifetime, and his creations were widely imitated. But nothing either in his own or in his contemporaries' work equals the invention of the Garden of Earthly Delights triptych, justly his most famous painting. Various attempts have been made to relate these fantasies to the realities of his own day. For instance, some of the sexually related visions have been related to the creed of the Adamites, a hereticel sect of the day advocating, at least in theory, sexual freedom like that in Eden. But the most promising line has been to recognize many of them as illustrations of proverbs: for instance, the pair of lovers in the glass bubble would recall the proverb 'Pleasure is as fragile as glass'. This approach also provides a link between these fantasies and Bosch's other work, such as the Cure of Folly or Haywain, and between Bosch's later work and Bruegel's in the middle of the sixteenth century: though without Bosch's satanic profusion, Bruegel also made illustrations of proverbs in this way. --- Keywords: -------------- Author: BOSCH, Hieronymus Title: Garden of Earthly Delights (central panel of the triptych) Time-line: 1451-1500 School: Flemish Form: painting Type: religious ÿÛ C $.' ",#(7),01444'9=82<.342ÿÛ C 2!!22222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222ÿÀ M" ÿÄ ÿÄ µ } !1AQa"q2�‘¡#B±ÁRÑð$3br‚ %&'()*456789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyzƒ„…†‡ˆ‰Š’“”•–—˜™š¢£¤¥¦§¨©ª²³´µ¶·¸¹ºÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊÒÓÔÕÖרÙÚáâãäåæçèéêñòóôõö÷øùúÿÄ ÿÄ µ w !1AQaq"2�B‘¡±Á #3RðbrÑ $4á%ñ&'()*56789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz‚ƒ„…†‡ˆ‰Š’“”•–—˜™š¢£¤¥¦§¨©ª²³´µ¶·¸¹ºÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊÒÓÔÕÖרÙÚâãäåæçèéêòóôõö÷øùúÿÚ ? ¬WqïéONô¥e úô§'%KϵdìX¨àqŽvâ¤+�Ç ž:T»à O