The painter is Hieronymus Van Aeken Bosch, "El Bosco", the favourite painter of Felipe II, whose favourite piece is the one I'm going to talk about. The picture belongs to the Early Flemish School, and it is a triptych painted oil on panel (2,20x3,89 m). This work was painted in 1503 or 1504 and it is exhibited in The Prado Museum in Madrid since 1940. The painting is an allegory of lust, a painted satire of men's sins and madness. The work condemns the delights of the senses, symbolized by fruits. The outer sides are painted in grisaille with a description of the Creation of the World.
-Left wing: the theme is the Original sin. God introduces Adam and Eve on Paradise. In the centre, the Fountain of Life. The owl, and other exotic animals that surround it, symbolized sin.
- Central panel:it shows the Mankind dominated by carnal pleasure. In a broad landscape setting, neked men and women abandon themselves to sensual pleasures, symbolized by ephemeral red fruits as strawberries, raspberries and cherries. The landscape, with its capricious architecture, is part of the elaborate symbolism. In the centre of the panel is the Fountain of Adultery. Surrounding it there are figures and fantastic beasts engaging in frenzied, erotic acts. The world of folly is an evil one. The are no shadows because it is an intellectually conceived world.
-Right wing: the theme is the punishment for all sins. Hell is imaged as an obscure place with fires that recede into the distance, inhabited by demons and monsters that torment the damned.
-Right wing: the theme is the punishment for all sins. Hell is imaged as an obscure place with fires that recede into the distance, inhabited by demons and monsters that torment the damned.
PT: I have been guided by a few notes I took during my visits to the Prado Museum.
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Very good.
In case it is taken from a source you have to write the reference.
Even so I liked it a lot.
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