FIGURE 144 Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights

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Description: The Garden of Earthly Delights, Garden panel, detail

TitleThe Garden of Earthly Delights, Garden panel, detail

Creator nameBosch, Hieronymus

Creator nationality/cultureNetherlandish

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1495–1505

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on panel

LocationMuseo del Prado, Madrid

https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-garden-of-earthly-delights-triptych/02388242-6d6a-4e9e-a992-e1311eab3609

Accession numberP002823

SubjectsPanel painting, NetherlandishNude in artBlack people in artChristian art and symbolism--Renaissance, 1450-1600

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4. Before Civilization

Margaret D. Carroll

Hieronymus Bosch: Time and Transformation in The Garden of Earthly Delights

The fertile land in the Paradise and Garden panels is inhabited by a variety of youthful nudes who variously call to mind stories of Paradise, of the Golden Age, and of early humanity before the Flood...

Author

Margaret D. Carroll

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.86-105

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00336.5

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Chapter subject tags:Bosch, Hieronymus, -1516. Garden of delightsHumanity in artInterracial friendshipSex in art

4. The African Transposed

Jean Devisse and Michel Mollat and William Granger Ryan (Translator)

Description: The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume II: From the Early Christian Era to...

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume II: From the Early Christian Era to the “Age of Discovery,” Part 2: Africans in the Christian Ordinance of the World

The last quarter of the fifteenth century witnessed a fresh outbreak of representations of Africans. From then on the black is really “seen” and “translated” in various ways. This variety reflects the contradictions in which Europe was living. Except for the highly localized example of St. Maurice, the most traditional theme and the one most closely connected with the...

Author

Jean Devisse and Michel Mollat and William Granger Ryan (Translator)

PublisherHarvard University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.185-279

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00138.008

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Chapter subject tags:Africa--Discovery and explorationAfricans in artArt and historyChristian art and symbolism--Medieval, 500-1500Magi--Art

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