Garden of Earthly Delights

Title: Garden of Earthly Delights

Artist: Hieronymus Bosch

Period: Around 1505

Since we were going over the Renaissance and Baroque art work I automatically thought about this painting, Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch. This was a painting I seen before in another art history class I had here at SXU. This was a painting to the development of the Protestant Reformation. The theme of the whole piece is the issues within the Catholic Church. There are three panels in the painting. The left painting focuses on the creation where the left is the tortures one goes through in hell. The center panel is twice the size of both side panels. It explains the moral issues that were the reasons for the corruption in the Church. In the central panel, the rotting fruit explains the short-lived pleasures in life, which are “earthly delights”. The exposure of several lovers to the world, without their knowledge, hints to the idea that private, lustful actions are still exposed in the end. The seven deadly sins of the earth are punishable in hell: lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride. This painting overall is using the color positively; bright colors. The images, those that are representing people are more ideal than real.