Who painted 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' in 1504?
The Garden of Earthly Delights The Garden of Earthly Delights 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. It has been housed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid since 1939. As so little is known of Bosch's life or intentions, interpretations of his intent have ranged from an admonition of worldly fleshy indulgence, to a dire warning on the perils of life's temptations, to an evocation of ultimate sexual joy. The intricacy of
The Garden of Earthly Delights "The Great Masturbator" is similar to an image on the right side of the left panel of Bosch's "Garden", composed of rocks, bushes and little animals resembling a face with a prominent nose and long eyelashes. When André Breton wrote his first Surrealist Manifesto in 1924, his historical precedents as inclusions named only Gustave Moreau, Georges Seurat and Uccello. However, the Surrealist movement soon rediscovered Bosch and Breughel, who quickly became popular among the Surrealist painters. René Magritte and Max Ernst both were inspired by Bosch's "The Garden of Earthly Delights". The Garden of Earthly Delights The Garden of Earthly