Garden of Earthly Delights Triptych by Bosch, Three Panel Folding Card 8.5H

This three-panel folding card illustrates Hieronymus Bosch's most famous painting, The Garden of Earthly Delights. It replicates on a miniature scale the interior and exterior panels of the Triptych now in the Prado Museum in Madrid. Made from printed paper. Measures: 8.5 inch H x 7.8 in W when closed. When opened, it is 15.6 in wide. PN JBC01L ABOUT THE ARTWORK: THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS Hieronymus Bosch shows us how we mortal souls, arisen from earthly paradise, are on our way to the atrocious ordeals of hell via our unchaste lives on earth. The dark painting on the closed panels shows the Creation, surrounded by water, in accordance with medieval traditions. ABOUT THE ART PERIOD: From an artistic point of view, the world famous brilliant forerunner of surrealism was, in his day, unique and radically different. Hieronymus (Jeroen for short) Bosch was born (ca. 1450-1516) during the transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance in s-Hertogenbosch, in the Duchy of Brabant. Bo