![]() ![]() Christ Crowned with Thorns, sometimes known as Christ Mocked. Ada is marrying an outdoor man, but her mind is a closed museum, and she, and dear Lucette, once drew my attention, by a creepy coincidence, to certain details of that other triptych, that tremendous garden of tongue-in-cheek delights, circa 1500, and, namely, to the butterflies in it - a Meadow Brown, female, in the center of the right panel, and a Tortoiseshell in the middle panel, placed there as if settled on a flower - mark the "as if," for here we have an example of exact knowledge on the part of those two admirable little girls, because they say that actually the wrong side of the bug is shown, it should have been the underside, if seen, as it is, in profile, but Bosch evidently found a wing or two in the corner cobweb of his casement and showed the prettier upper surface in depicting his incorrectly folded insect. The drawing shows the artist at an advanced age, probably in his late sixties. The bird-like creature delivering a note in The Temptation of St Anthony has a funnel on its head, doglike ears and seems to be wearing skates who knows what this means But they are elements that repeat themselves in his paintings. ![]() What makes it more unique is Bosch’s attention to detail and his artistic skill in rendering these obscene micro-narratives within one macro narrative, so to say. witches, beggars, owls, proverbs, and genre subjects. 108 Likes, TikTok video from tuwley (tuwley): 'The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, 1515. ![]() ‘If I could write,' mused Demon, ‘I would describe, in too many words no doubt, how passionately, how incandescently, how incestuously - c'est le mot - art and science meet in an insect, in a thrush, in a thistle of that ducal bosquet. Hieronymus Bosch (c 14501516), The Garden of Earthly Delights (centre panel, detail) (c 1495-1505), oil on oak panel, central panel 190 × 175 cm, each wing 187.5 × 76.5 cm, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. Bosch’s skill was to develop a visual language that illustrated and fleshed out these beings. The famous, or infamous, Bosch triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights (c.1480 to 1505) is a rich and enigmatic display of the Garden of Eden, the Garden of Earthly Delights, and Hell. Koreny, for three decades the curator of German drawings at the Albertina and professor in Vienna. ![]()
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