3.03.2004
In case that didn't work: http://master-new.3dresearch.com/bosch/delight.html
Check that link out - it's to a piece of art work by Hieronymus Bosch, an artist I encourage everyone to check out. He's classified as a Netherland's Renaissance artist, however his work is still quite popular today. We have been studying this specific piece which is untitled, but for international inventory purposes has been called 'Garden of Earthly Delights.' The left pannel is supposedly representative of Creation, the middle is really unknown, and the third panel is a Judgement scene. The third is the one that most interests me - notice Satan (the mouse like character) sitting on a toilet, eating a human who has crows flying out of his ass, and then poops them out in little gas bubbles! Northern Renaissance artists tend to use a 'tilted' effect (lifting the background up so that there is no atmospheric perspective) and they are very detailed, they also include veiled symbolism. Bosch includes cranes, black birds, spoons, and tons of supposedly symbolic things, but people have studied this piece for years and they have yet to make sense out of the odd images. I'd like to think he was having a light hearted poke at all the clerics of the time. All the people being tortured are wearing Catholic garb. Some people say he was a reformationist, which would explain his hatred towards the Catholics, but who knows. Bosch was an extremely mysterious person. Anyways if you have a few minutes check out this site and look for other works - this is my most favorite, though! Oh yeah, if you look closely in the middle panel, I think, you'll find a man with a fist full of flowers whipping another man who is on all fours with flowers coming out of his ass : ) Entertaining stuff! : )
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