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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), a [+]
In the centre of a rectangular surface Bosch incised a circle in which he depicted this scene of Extracting the stone of madness. The resulting image is a mirror that offers a reflection of folly and [+]
Two banderoles, one above and the other below the central circle, contain Latin texts from Deuteronomy (32: 28-29 and 20), warning against the wages of sin. The upper banderole, between the tondos of [+]
The theme of this triptych is the advent of salvation -a message about the universality of Redemption. The Eucharistic meaning inherent in the theme of Saint Gregory’s Mass is also found in The Adorat [+]
El santo arrebatado en los aires por demonios y, en tierra, rodeado de monstruos grotescos. Es copia reducida con algunas variantes, como P2051, de una portezuela del tríptico de Lisboa. [+]
Bosch thus shows how man, irrespective of his social class or place of origin, is so possessed by the desire to enjoy and acquire material possessions that he allows himself to be deceived or seduced [+]
Saint Anthony, whom the artist has been able to place in the immediate foreground of this panel by using a landscape format, closely resembles the saint depicted in the Saint Anthony triptych in Lisbo [+]
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This panel originally had an arched top and included a more open landscape with less leafy trees. At an unknown date the work must have suffered damage that affected the pictorial surface, resulting i [+]
Interrumpen la lectura del santo ermitaño visiones obscenas y monstruosas a su alrededor, en la lejanía y en los aires. Es copia reducida con algunas variantes, como P2050, de una portezuela del trípt [+]
Apoyado sobre una roca con un libro entre las manos, el santo vuelve la cabeza hacia el espectador. En la mitad inferior se han representado extrañas y monstruosas figuras, mientras que en el ángulo d [+]
Visio Tondalii fue el título de un poema anónimo del siglo XII de contenido moralizante, impreso en Amberes en 1482, que es considerado como una de las fuentes literarias de la obra de El Bosco. [+]
A model similar to this one appears in the Crown of Thorns at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp, specifically, the figure who is supposed to place the crown of thorns on Christ´s head. The figu [+]
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