10 Fun Facts about The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch

Amuze Art Lecture #24: A discussion of The Garden of Earthly Delights, painted between 1490 and 1510 by Hieronymus Bosch.
A high-resolution image of this painting: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:11 #1 The Fountain of Life
1:38 #2 Birds
1:58 #3 Fruits
2:23 #4 Lust
3:05 #5 Potty Chair
3:32 #6 Apocalypse
3:54 #7 Gambling
4:21 #8 Self Portrait
4:51 #9 Perception
5:19 #10 Back of the Painting
5:51 Conclusion
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Music: Dragon and Toast by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0, incompetech.com/)

[@robertirving1308]

Wow, what an artist and painting. The details are incredible indeed. And thanks for putting the link to the image, I am going to study some more details.

[@AmuzeArt]

Yes, every time I look at this painting, I discover something new.

[@poojamutneja86]

Intriguing.....very helpful video....Thanks for making it easy to decipher this complex piece of Art....

[@AmuzeArt]

Thanks, there are so many other great details in there. And many of them are hard to understand today, though it seems that they resonated quite well with the viewers back in Bosch's day.

[@petermatrai256]

I always do find new parts every time I watch It... Thanks for the video, would love to hear some more Bosch analysis! -Greetings from Hungary.

[@AmuzeArt]

Thanks, same here! If you look at the high-resolution image, you can find so many intriguing and bizarre elements.

[@alfabsc]

Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts about Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights. I always found it amusing that this painting used musical instruments as torture devices. The bagpipes force the damned to march around in circles. Someone is crucified on a lute. The harp strings pierce through another poor soul. A man is turning the crank on a giant hurdy-gurdy while being tortured by a demon. Another is forced to carry a giant crumhorn with a flute stuck in his butt. The music leader is a demon. The music notes are tattooed or burned onto someone's butt. Someone is covering their ears from the alpine horn. I am a musician and have never sent anyone to Hell with my music. 😈

[@AmuzeArt]

Haha, so many intriguing details indeed!

[@flyingpeter]

Oh, I love this painting, I Lear about it some 15 years ago while I was looking for deep purple albums, in the cover of their first album is a small portion of the hell panel, the full thing is wacky, like cartoonish, the bird eating people, the man hugging the owl in the middle panel, someone shiting birds, I like the painting

[@AmuzeArt]

Great! And I believe Deep Purple were not the only ones using this painting as inspiration for their album cover.

[@flyingpeter]

@@AmuzeArt yea, in not sure but remember from somewhere a Jimmy hendrix experience album art that included also a portion on the hell panel, I believe is always the part with the instruments, there is a music sheet painted on the bottom of someone

[@AmuzeArt]

@@flyingpeter Yes, there is a book with music scores and part of the scores are painting on one of the figures (left side of the Hell panel). And there have been people who have turned this into real music, giving us an idea of how Medieval music sounded like.

[@RogerHilleboe]

The dude ascending the ladder with the arrow in his butt is funny in the Right Panel. In the exact center of the painting lies an egg.

[@AmuzeArt]

Haha

[@probindemufhoes42069]

If you look at the hell panel you'll see a Gothic Harp, Hurdy Gurdy and a Medieval Lute, there is a man's buttocks with music notation written on it. If you look up "Hieronymus Bosch butt music" you can hear how it sounds like. It's a very beautiful eerie melody and i've been addicted to it! I personally thinks it add another dimension to the art. Like a cool little time capsule of an easter egg

[@AmuzeArt]

That's awesome indeed!

[@joanazul]

Great painting! Incredible details. He must have been very bad at music with all those music instruments in hell 😆

[@AmuzeArt]

Thanks. Yes, there seems to be a lot of music in the right panel. And there is even some sheet music in there that can be deciphered, which some people have turned into real music.

[@Mark-zp3fg]

The whole thing is debosched!

[@AmuzeArt]

I hope you enjoyed the deBosching.

[@claudeclawsonne4510]

butt tune from Hell FTW!!!

[@AmuzeArt]

That's a funny one indeed

[@user-zp3be1vm2lhit]

非常に美しく、巧みに人間の喜怒哀楽、罪等描がかれていると思います。失礼ですが、少し不気味な絵画と、私個人の感想です。

[@AmuzeArt]

And Bosch intentionally made it look creepy and strange, because this painting served as a warning to the people of his time to make the right choices in life such that they would not end up in Hell.