Painted sometime between 1490 and 1510, The Garden of Earthly Delights is perhaps Hieronymus Bosch's most ambitious work. Formed of three panels and totalling almost four metres in length, the triptych is a dizzyingly detailed and delightfully surreal work, the possible meanings of which have kept scholars busy for centuries. Pieter Bruegel (also Brueghel or Breughel) the Elder (/ ˈ b r ɔɪ ɡ əl /, also US: / ˈ b r uː ɡ əl /; Dutch: [ˈpitər ˈbrøːɣəl] ⓘ; c. 1525–1530 – 9 September 1569) was among the most significant artists of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (so-called genre painting); he was a pioneer in presenting The most famous of these paintings is The Garden of Earthly Delights which was painted sometime between 1495 and 1505. It is a triptych , a 3-paneled painting that folds closed. The left panel depicts God introducing Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, the central panel shows society and its temptations, and the right panel represents Judgment Day. There can’t be a discussion of hellscapes without Hieronymus Bosch, whose spellbinding masterwork The Garden of Earthly Delights rivals the fame of Dante’s Inferno. The Dutch painter came of age in the mid-1400s during the Protestant Reformation, when Christians began to interpret the word of God for themselves, rather than rely on the Church as an intermediary. The central panel of Hieronymus Bosch ‘s The Garden of Earthly Delights (c. 1490-1510); Hieronymus Bosch, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The foreground is filled with figures all seemingly romping and cavorting with one another; some are eating and holding different types of berries, some are feeding each other, some are being fed by Oil on wood. Dimensions. 58 cm × 33 cm (22.8 in × 13.0 in) Location. Louvre, Paris. Ship of Fools (painted c. 1490–1500) is a painting by Hieronymus Bosch, now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. Camille Benoit donated it in 1918. The Louvre restored it in 2015. The surviving painting is a fragment of a triptych that was cut into several parts. Fish with legs, along with demons and monsters are recurrent motifs in Bosch´s oeuvre. On more than one occasion, Bosch is known to have drawn inspiration from contemporary sources like the popular Ship of Fools by Sebastian Brant. The iniquity of humankind is a central theme in many of his works. The famous Pedlar is a case in point. Below is the article summary. For the full article, see Hiëronymus Bosch . Hiëronymus Bosch, orig. Jeroen van Aken or Jerome van Aken, (born c. 1450s, ’s Hertogenbosch, Brabant—died Aug. 9, 1516, ’s Hertogenbosch), Netherlandish painter. He was the son and grandson of accomplished painters; his name comes from his native town of ’s Of the temptation against which the holy men are capable of putting up little resistance. Max Jacob Friedlander, 1941. In the portrayal of strange apparitions and hideous and terrifying dreams and worlds, the Fleming Hieronymus Bosch was unique and truly divine. Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, 1584. Tempera on panel, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan. One of the greatest Early Renaissance paintings produced outside Florence, it is renowned as probably the most famous example of the illusionistic technique of foreshortening in the quattrocento. Camera degli Sposi frescoes (1465-74) Fresco, Camera Picta, Ducal Palace, Mantua. Gj0uP4.