The Garden Of Earthly Delights Right Panel

As so little is known of bosch s life or intentions interpretations of his intent have ranged.

The garden of earthly delights right panel. Painted sometime between 1490 and 1510 the garden of earthly delights is perhaps hieronymus bosch s most ambitious work. The garden of earthly delights is bosch s most complex and enigmatic creation. Image via wikimedia commons. The garden of earthly delights is what describes the central panel of the work and has become the modern name for the entire piece.

Jerome s vision of delight and dread in human life unfolds in a work painted on three wooden panels some time between 1495 and 1505 nowadays called the garden of earthly delights. Detail of the right panel of hieronymus bosch the garden of earthly delights 1490 1500. Earlier visions of hell if indeed that s what bosch intended here are pretty tame in comparison to this. 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 between 1490 and 1510 when bosch was between 40 and 60 years old.

The garden of earthly delights shows adam and eve and various animals on the left panel cavorting nude figures oversized fruit and earthly delights in the middle from which the triptych takes its name and hell ensuring torment for sinners on the right panel. The two outer panels when shut to cover up the central panel show the world in creation. Panel of hell detail hieronymus bosch the garden of earthly delights c. Hieronymus bosch c 1450 1516 the garden of earthly delights right panel c 1495 1505 oil on oak panel central panel 190 175 cm each wing 187 5 76 5 cm museo nacional del prado madrid.

Formed of three panels and totalling almost four metres in length the triptych is a dizzyingly detailed and delightfully surreal work the possible meanings of which have kept scholars busy for centuries. On the near black frozen surface of the river behind there are skaters one of whom has fallen through the ice. Hieronymus bosch c 1450 1516 the garden of earthly delights right panel detail c 1495 1505 oil on oak panel central panel 190 175 cm each wing 187 5 76 5 cm museo nacional del prado madrid. 1480 1505 oil on panel 220 x 390 cm prado bosch saves the best for last.

This work sums up the history of the world and focuses on the progression of sin. While lust is the dominant theme in the central panel bosch s hell presents an array of vices from lust to greed to vanity. Image via wikimedia commons. It has been housed in the museo del prado in madrid since the year 1939.

Left and right panels of the garden of earthly delights there s a specific way to read the piece just like a book.