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    Mary Bergmark Dr. Bailey ART 23 November, 2014 The Garden Of Earthly Delights Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights was painted during 1480-1505. This painting was produced on a panel and painted with oil. It is 200 cm tall and 390 cm wide. Bosch’s work was a 3-part altarpiece known as a triptych. Bosch’s art work is a depiction of heaven, sin in the real world, and hell. In this paper, I am going to analyze the biblical symbols in the closed portion of the panel, the left, centre, and right panel of Bosch’s masterpiece. The outer wings is painted with dark black and grey. The world appears to be flat and sphere shaped, with heavens at the top. During this time it was popular to paint perceptions of the world…

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    To think that I would have a completely different way of thinking about my daily activities from research of a painting of “The Garden of Earthly Delights” by Heironymus Bosch, this painting is a part of our first year read book that is brought up on many occasions by Frans Dee Waal who relates it back to the Bonobos. This painting required much time looking at and much research. To me this painting has made me come to think so much about temptations that we fight in our life, to me as a college…

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    Hieronymus Bosch (2p minimum) introduction Exploring the concept of the Christian Worldview- Hieronymus Bosch and his rather infamous triptych ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights. We misunderstand the artist if we fail to look past his grotesque beasts and monsters biography real name was Jeroen van Aken and in Spain, he is known as “El Bosco”. Bosch was a Dutch painter of the 15th-16th century Little is known about the life of this Early Netherlandish Renaissance artist, but we do know that both…

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    Two works of art that I found to be compelling are The Garden of Earthly Delights and The Netherlandish Proverbs. Both pieces address human morality and the consequences of poor decisions. These pieces are both extraordinary in their complexity, details, and thoughtfulness. Each provides endless observation and interpretation by the viewer. Hieronymus Bosch’s painting, The Garden of Earthly Delights, is oil on oak panels, measuring 220 cm × 389 cm. Finished in 1505, the piece is a triptych,…

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    The Garden of Earthly Delighted was one of Bosch's most famous painting. The painting was created around 1510. The painting had different designs and naked people to express what the author was trying to say. The painting showed intimacy between men and women. The painting also had creatures and demons and vessels. The Garden of Earthly Delights painting was the beginning when God made Adam and Eve. Religion plays a big part in this art it had things in it about sins and lust. Hell is in the…

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    State College for Woman to Florida State University was one of the biggest moments in Florida State Universities history. This reflection on the past can be seen even by the way the three statues on the side of the fountain closest to Landis Hall look onto the Strozier side and one statue even reaches. Whereas the side closest to Strozier Library has two of the statues looking in reflection at the Landis side and the other statues looks as though it has just run through the wall of water that…

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    Similarly, Henry David Thoreau’s personal memoir ‘Walden’ acts as a thoughtful reflection regarding the impact of the natural environment upon the world-view of the author. Finally, Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych painting, ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’, visually depicts the corrupting physical discoveries that led to the biblical fall of man. Each of these texts has ably represented discovery as an intensely meaningful undertaking that has the potential to challenge…

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    Andrew Marvell and Description of Garden of Earthy Delights in his Poems Andrew Marvell is a British poet who lived in 17th century. His poems cover a wide variety of themes: from the love to politics and nature’s role in people’s lives. Marvell often used exalted topics/ However, he chooses different approaches compared to other famous poets like William Wordsworth who was born and worked hundred years after Marvell’s death. The last author often covered metaphysical motifs like his experience…

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    Garden of Earthly Delight was created in 1500-1505, during the Renaissance Era (“Garden”). However, unlike the time period it was created it represented some Surrealistic aspects. The painting consists of three separate images that are formed into one large image. The style is known as Triptych. Triptych is a style in which three separate pieces are put together in order to form a larger image (“MoMA”). The images seem to pertain to religious ideology. The principles of the design that were…

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    Hieronymus Bosch

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    The artist of the Garden of Earthly Delights was created by a flemish painter named Hieronymus Bosch. Bosch was born in the 1450s and burried in on August 9th 1516. His cause of death was unclear but he could have cought pleurisy. He's father and grandfather were also successful painters and besides that there is not much known about his early years except his family owned an art studio in ‘s-Hertogenbosch where he learned the skills of an artis. In his thirties Hieronymus Bosch married Aleid…

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