The Meaning of Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights Explained

 
“Over the half-millennium since Hieronymus Bosch painted it, The Garden of Earthly Delights has produced an ever-widening array of interpretations. Is it ‘a painting about sexual freedom’? A ‘medieval acid trip’? An ‘erotic fantasy’? A ‘heretical attack on the church’? The work of ‘a member of an obscure free-love cult’? James Payne, the London curator behind the Youtube channel Great Art Explained, rejects all these views. In the opening of the in-depth video analysis above, he describes Bosch’s well-known and much-scrutinized late-15th or early-16th century triptych as, ‘pure and simply, hardcore Christianity.’ ...”

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