FIGURE 125 Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights

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Description: The Garden of Earthly Delights, Garden panel, detail

TitleThe Garden of Earthly Delights, Garden panel, detail

Creator nameBosch, Hieronymus

Creator nationality/cultureNetherlandish

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1495–1505

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on panel

LocationMuseo del Prado, Madrid

https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-garden-of-earthly-delights-triptych/02388242-6d6a-4e9e-a992-e1311eab3609

Accession numberP002823

SubjectsPanel painting, NetherlandishAcrobatsNature in artChristian art and symbolism--Renaissance, 1450-1600

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4. Before Civilization

Margaret D. Carroll

Hieronymus Bosch: Time and Transformation in The Garden of Earthly Delights

The fertile land in the Paradise and Garden panels is inhabited by a variety of youthful nudes who variously call to mind stories of Paradise, of the Golden Age, and of early humanity before the Flood...

Author

Margaret D. Carroll

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.86-105

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00336.5

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23181&redirecttoanchor=89067

Chapter subject tags:Bosch, Hieronymus, -1516. Garden of delightsHumanity in artInterracial friendshipSex in art

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