Garden of earthly pleasure description. Picture "Garden of earthly pleasures
Loves dutch artist Jerome Bosch recognizable on fantastic plots and delicate details. One of the most famous and ambitious works of this artist is the Triptych "Garden earthly pleasures"Whatever over 500 years has been disputes from lovers of art worldwide.
1. Triptych named its central panel
IN three parts One picture of Bosch tried to portray all human experience - from the life of the earth to the afterlife. The left panel of Triptych displays Paradise, right - hell. In the center there is a garden of earthly pleasures.
2. Date of creating triptych unknown
Bosch never dated his works, which complicates the work of art historians. Some claim that Bosch began to draw a "garden of earthly pleasures" in 1490, when he was about 40 years old (his accurate year Birth is also unknown, but it is assumed that the Dutchman was born in 1450). And the grandiose work was completed between 1510 and 1515.3. "Paradise"
Art historians argue that the paradise garden is depicted at the time of the event of Eva. In the picture, he looks like a untouched land, on which mysterious creatures live, among which even unicorns can be seen.4. Hidden meaning
Some art historians believe that the middle panel depicts people who are crazy for their sins, who miss their chance to find eternity in heaven. Blow Bosch depicted a variety of nude figures engaged in frivolous classes. It is believed that flowers and fruits symbolize the temporary pleasures of the flesh. Some even suggested that the glass dome, which covers several lovers, symbolizes the Flemish saying "Happiness, like glass - it once is broken down."
5. Garden of earthly pleasure \u003d lost paradise?
A rather popular interpretation of triptych is that it is not a warning, but a statement of fact: a man lost the right path. According to this decryption, the images on the panels need to be viewed in consistently from left to right, and not count the central panel for the development between hell and paradise.6. Secrets of paintings
The side panels of triptych with the image of Paradise and Hell can be folded, closing the center panel. On the outside side panels depicted the last part "Garden of earthly pleasures" - the image of the world on the third day after creation, when the earth is already covered with plants, but there are no animals, nor a person.Since this image is essentially an introduction to what is shown on the inner panel, it is made in a monochrome style known as the Griezaile (it was the usual phenomenon for triptychs of that era, and was intended to not distract attention from the colors of the opened inner part).
7. The garden of earthly pleasures is one of three similar triptykhov who created Bosch
Two thematic triptychs of Bosch, similar to the "Garden of earthly pleasures", are " Scary court"And" WHO SENA ". Each of them can be viewed in chronological order From left to right: the biblical creation of a person in the Garden of Eden modern life And her mess, terrible consequences in hell.8. In one of the parts of the picture, the devotion of Bosch family is demonstrated
About life dutch artist Epochs early rebirth It has been preserved very little reliable facts, but it is known that his father and grandfather were also artists. Bosch's father Antonius Van Aken was also an adviser to the famous fraternity Blessed Virgin Mary - Groups of Christians who worshiped the Virgin Mary. Shortly before the start of work on the "garden of earthly pleasures", Bosch followed the example of his father and also entered into the Brotherhood.
9. Through Triptych wears religious theme, it was not painted for the church
Although the artist's work is clearly made on religious topics, she was too strange to exhibit it in a religious institution. It is much more likely that the work was created for a rich patron, perhaps a member of the famous fraternity of the Most Holy Virgin.10. Perhaps the picture was very popular at one time.
The "garden of earthly pleasures" is first mentioned in history in 1517, when the Italian chronicler Antonio de Beatis celebrated this unusual cloth in the Brussels Palace of Nassau at home.11. The Word of God is shown on the painting with two hands.
The first scene is shown in paradise where God raised right hand, leads Eve to Adam. There is exactly such a gesture on the hell panel, but the hand points to the dying players to hell at the bottom.12. Colors of the paintings also have a hidden meaning
Pink color Symbolizes divinity and source of life. Blue colour Refers to Earth, as well as earthly pleasures (for example, people eat blue berries from blue dishes and frolic in blue ponds). Red represents passion. Brown color Symbolizes mind. And finally, the green, which is everywhere meets in "Paradise", is almost completely absent in "hell" - he symbolizes kindness.
13. Triptych is much larger than everyone
Triptych "Garden of Earth Delights" is actually just a huge. The sizes of its central panel are about 2.20 x 1.89 meters, and each side panel is 2.20 x 1 meter. In the deployed state, the triptych width is 3.89 meters.14. Bosch made a hidden self-portrait in the picture
This is just an assumption, but art historian Hans Balting suggested that Bosch depicted himself in the Hell panel, split into two parts. According to this interpretation, the artist is a man whose body resembles a cracked egg shell, smiles ironically, looking at the scene of hell.15. Bosch earned a reputation for a surrealist Novator thanks to the "Garden of earthly pleasures"
Until the 1920s, before the appearance of the fan of Bosch, Salvador Dali, surrealism was not popular. Some modern critics Call Bosch Father Surrealism, because he wrote 400 years old before Dali.
Continuing the topic mysterious paintings We will tell about that - the most mysterious of all stranger.
Triptych "Garden of earthly pleasures" is the most famous and mysterious of the works of Bosch. In 1593 he acquired his Spanish King Philip II, who liked the work of the artist. Since 1868, Triptych is in the Prado Museum Collections in Madrid.
Garden of earthly pleasures about 1500 Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain
The central part of Triptych is a panorama of the fantastic "Garden of Love", inhabited by many nude figures of men and women, unprecedented animals, birds and plants. Lovers loosely indulge love Utyuham In the reservoirs, in incredible crystal facilities, hide under the penetration of huge fruits or in the skeins of the shell.
The beasts of unnatural proportions, birds, fish, butterflies, algae, huge flowers and fruits were mixed with human figures. 
In the composition "Garden of the Rasosy" there are three plans:
In the foreground, "various joy" is shown. There is here luxury pond and fountain The color of the absurd and vanity locks. 
The BTER plan is engaged in Petro Cavalcade numerous naked riders who go on deer, griffins, panthers and boars - nothing but a cycle of passions passing through a labyrinth of pleasures. 
The third (the furthest) - is crowned with a blue sky, where people fly on the winged fish and with their own wings.
All these characters and scenes occurring among intricate combinations of plants, rocks, fruits, glass spheres and crystals are united between themselves not so much internal logic of the narration, how many symbolic connections, the meaning of which every new generation understood differently.
Cherries, strawberries, strawberries and grapes, with such joy eaten by people, symbolize the sinful sexuality, deprived of the light of Divine Love
Birds become the personification of lust and debauchery, the love couple retired in a transparent bubble. Slightly above the young man hugs huge owl, the right of the bubble in the middle of the pool, in the water, another man stands on the head, spreading the legs, between which the birds are whining the nest.
Not far from Him, the young man who dried out his beloved from the pink hollow apple, feeds the people standing on the neck in the water by the monstrous grape cluster. 
Fish - a symbol of restless lust,
Sink is a female start. 
At the bottom of the picture, the young man hugged a huge strawberry. IN western European art Exchange served as a symbol of purity and virginity 
The scene with the grape cluster in the pool is a communion, and a giant pelican, picked up on a long beak cherry (symbol of sensuality) teases by her people sitting in bud fantastic flower. Pelican himself symbolizes love for neighbor.
Symbols of Christian art The artist often gives a particularly sensual sound, redundant them into a material and body plan 
In the tower of adultery, which rises from the Lucky Love and the yellow-orange walls of which is sparkled like a crystal, deceived husbands are sleeping among the horns. The glass sphere of the steel color, in which lovers indulge in caressing, is crowned with a crown of crescent and pink marble horns. The sphere and a glass bell covering three sinners illustrate the Dutch Proverb: "Happiness and glass - as they are short-lived!". And they are the symbols of the heretical nature of sin and those hazards that he carries into the world 
The left side of the Garden of Destinations depicts the scene of the "Creation of Eve", and the paradise itself shines and transfers with bright, sparkling paints 
Different animals graze among the green hills, against the background of the fantastic landscape of Paradise, around the reservoir with a bizarre construction.
This is a fountain of life, from which a variety of creatures are chosen 
On the foreground, near the tree of knowledge, the master shows awakening Adam. He just woken up Adam raised from the ground and looks at Eve in amazement, which God shows him.
Famous art critic Sh. De Tolnai notes that a surprised look, which Adam throws on the first woman, is a step towards sin. And Eva, extracted from Adam's edge, is not just a woman, but also an instrument of seduction.
As usual, Bosch, no idyll exists without an omname of evil, and we see a pit with dark water, cat with a mouse in the teeth (Cat - Cruelty, Devil) 
Several incidents discard the gloomy shadow and on the peaceful life of animals: the lion devours a deer, the wild boar pursues a mysterious beast.
And over all this, the source of life is towers - a hybrid of plants and a marble cliff, soaring gothic design, installed on dark blue stones of a small island. At the very top of her - while still nearly noticeable crescents, but already from the inside it looks like, like a worm, owl - misfortune. 
The fabulous paradise of the central panel is inferior to Nightmap of Hell, which is converted into madness of passion. Triptych's right sash - blood pressure - dark, dark, disturbing, with separate outbreaks of light piercing the night MGLU, and with sinners who are tormented by some kind of giant musical instruments. 
As always, Bosch has a picture of hell, a burning city serves as a background but here the buildings are not just not lit, rather they explode, throwing the jets of the fire. The main topic is chaos, in which normal relations are turned upside down, and ordinary items. 
In the center of hell there is a huge figure of the monster, this is a kind of "guide" on the hell - the chief "narrator." His legs are hollow tree trunks, and they are relying on two vessels.
Satan's body is a revealed egg shell, on the fields of his hat demons and witch whether they walk, whether they dance with sinful souls ... or water around a huge floss (symbol male start) People responsible in unnatural sin. 
Around the ruler of hell is punished sins: one sinner crucified, piercing it with the strings of the harp; Next to him, a red-made demon spends a diversity of the hellish orchestra on notes written in the buttocks of another sinner. Musical instruments (as a symbol of solvent and debauchery) turned into torture tools. 
In a high chair, a bird monster sits, punishing rzhor and westering. He shoved his legs into beer jugs, and a pot on his bird his heads. And he punishes sinners, devouring them and then they immerse themselves in the pit, the obzhor is forced to continuously tear into the pit, a monsters caress a vain woman. 
Hell's sash represents the third stage of the fall, when the Earth itself turned into hell. Items previously served as sin now turned into guns. These chimeras of unclean conscience have all the specific values \u200b\u200bof sexual dream symbols.
The harmless rabbit (in the picture he surpasses its size of a person) in Christianity was a symbol of the immortality of the soul and abundance. Boschu, he plays on the horn and lowers the sinner head down to the hellish fire. 
Below, on an ice lake, man balancing on a big ice skate, which carries it to the hole. The hitch, attached to the anticipation of a monk, issues the desire of the latter to marriage prohibited for representatives of the clergy.
A helpless male figure is fighting with love pins, in nun's clothes. 
"In this horror there is no salvation for mosted in sins," says Pesssimistically Bosch.
On the outer surface of the closed sash, the artist portrayed the Earth on the third day of creation. It is shown as a transparent sphere, up to half filled with water. From the dark moisture protrude sushi outlines. In the distance, in the cosmic Mol, the Creator appears, who observing the birth of a new world ... 
9 And God said: Yes, water will be gathered, which is under the sky, in one place, and sushi will appear. And so.
10 And God called Sushu Earth, and called the waters called by the seas. And I saw God that [this] is good.
11 And God said: May the earth will grow, grass, the sowing seed tree is fruitful, bringing his fruit, in which his seed on Earth. And so.
12 And the lands of greens, grass, seeding by her, and a tree, bringing the fruit, in which his seed by his family. And I saw God that [this] is good.
13 And there was evening, and it was morning: the third day.
Old Testament Genesis 1
According to Triptych format, traditional for the Netherlands altars, but the content shows that Bosch was not intended for his church.
In 2016, it is difficult to call the artist, whose name would sound more often than Jerome Bosch. He died 500 years ago, leaving behind three dozen pictures, wherever neither image, then a mystery. Together with Snezha Petrova, we walk on the "garden of earthly pleasures" Bosch and try to figure it out in this bastiary.
"Garden of earthly pleasure" Bosch (picture increases by clicking)
Plot
Let's start with the fact that none of the existing interpretations of the work of Bosch is not recognized as true. All that we know about this masterpiece - from the time of creation to the name - the hypothesis of researchers.
The names of all paintings of Bosch are invented by researchers of his work
Triptych is considered to be software for Bosch not only because of semantic load, but also at the expense of the diversity and sophistication of the characters. The name was made by art historians, suggesting that the garden of earthly pleasures was depicted on the central part.
On the left sash - the story of the creation of the first people and their communications with God. The creator submits Eve to the stunned Adam, who missed this day alone. We see paradise landscapes, exotic animals, unusual imagesBut without inflection - only as a confirmation of the wealth of the fantasy of God and the variety of living beings created by him.
Apparently, it is not by chance that the episode of Adam and Eve is chosen. This is the beginning of the end, because the woman broke the taboo, seduced a man, for which they went to the ground, where, as it turned out, they are waiting for not only the tests, but also a garden of pleasure.
However, it is necessary to pay early or late for everything, which is talking about the right sash, which is still called the musical hell: to the sounds of numerous tools of monsters, trimming cars are launched, where those who have recently unhealthy fell in the garden enjoyed.
On the reverse side of the sash - the creation of the world. "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. The land was insidious and empty, and darkness over the vast, and the Spirit of God rushed over the water. " (Gen. 1: 1-2).
With his work, Bosch, apparently, promoted piety
Image by back side sash
Sin-chadliner in Triptikh - Sweistance. In principle, it would be more logical to call the Triptych "garden of earthly temptations" as a direct reference to sin. What seems idyll in the modern viewer, from the point of view of a person of the turn of the XV-XVI centuries. The Ekov was an obvious example of how it is impossible to lead (otherwise - to the right sash, be kind).
Most likely, Bosch wanted to show the intestate consequences of sensual pleasures and their ephemeral character: Aloe dugs into nude flesh, the coral fastens the body, the sink slams, turning a love couple in his prisoners. In the tower of adultery, whose orange-yellow walls sparkle like a crystal, deceived husbands sleep among the horns. The glass sphere in which lovers are indulge in caressing, and a glass bell, shelting three sinners, illustrate the Dutch proverb: "Happiness and glass - as they are short-lived."
Hell is shown the most bloodthirsty and unequivocally. The victim becomes a bill, prey - a hunter. The most common and harmless items everyday life, racing to monstrous sizes, turn into torture tool. All this is how it is impossible to give the chaos, reigning in hell, where normal interrelations that have once existed in the world have been turned over.
Bosch helped the copies to steal his plots
By the way, not so long ago, a student of Christian University of Oklahoma Amelia Hamrik deciphered and shifted for the piano a note record, which was wondering on the body of a sinner lying under the giant mandolina in the right part of the painting. In turn, William Esenzo, an independent artist and composer, made a choir arrangement for the "hellish" song and composed words.
Context
The main thought that connects not only parts of this triptych, but, apparently, all works of Bosch - the theme of sin. It was generally a trend at the time. In fact, it is virtually impossible not to sin: here the name of the Lord you will say, you will drink there or eat extra, we still care, I will carry a neighbor, in the despondency going to go - how to stay clean?! Therefore, people sinned and afraid, they were afraid, but they still sinned, and lived in fear God's court And from day to day waited for the end of the world. The church was heated (in figurative sense On sermons and in direct - on the bonfires) faith of people in the inevitability of punishment for violating the law of God.
A few decades after the death of Bosch, a wide movement of the revival of bizarre fancy creatures began dutch painter. This splash of interest in Bosshovsky motifs, explaining the popularity of the works of Peter Bruegel Senior, was supported by the wide distribution of engraving. The passion lasted several decades. Special success had engravings illustrating proverbs and scenes from folk life.
Surrealists called themselves the heirs of Bosch
"Seven mortal sins" Peter Bruegel Senior
With the arrival of Surrealism, Bosch was taken out of the storages, dust blew and rethought. Dali declared himself his heir. The perception of images from Bosch's webs seriously changed, including under the influence of the theory of psychoanalysis (where without Freud, when it comes to the release of the subconscious). Breton and considered at all that Bosch "wrote down" on the canvas, any image that came to his head - actually conducted a diary.
Interesting is another fact. Bosch wrote his paintings in the technique A La Prima, that is, put the oil not a few layers, waiting for each of them every way (as they did, actually, all), and one. As a result, the picture could be written in one session. This technique has become very popular much later - among impressionists.
Modern psychology can explain why the works of Bosch have such attractiveness, but cannot determine the meaning they had for the artist and its contemporaries. We see that his paintings are full of symbolism from opposite camps: Christian, heretical, alchemicals. But what actually encrypted Bosch in such a combination, we never seem to know.
Fate artist
Talk about the so-called creative career Bosch is rather difficult: we do not know the original names of the picture, none of the cloths are not specified the date of creation, and the author's signature is rather an exception than the rule.
The legacy of Bosch does not say that numerous: three dozen paintings and a dozen drawings (copies of the whole meeting are stored in the artist name in his hometown Hertogenbosa). Glory in the eyelids provided to him mostly triptychs, their seven, including the "garden of earthly pleasures", were preserved to this day.
Bosch was born in the family of hereditary artists. It is difficult to say whether he chose this path himself or did not have to choose, but, apparently, working with the materials he studied at his father, grandfather and brothers. He performed the first public works for the Brotherhood of the Mother of God, whose member was. He as an artist entrusted the tasks, where it was necessary to wrap in paints and brushes: the painting of everything and all, the design of festive processions and ritual sacraments, etc.
At some point, order the canvas from Bosch became fashionable. The list of customers of the artist Saved such names as the ruler of the Netherlands and the King of Castile Philip I is beautiful, his sister Margarita Austrian, Venetian Cardinal Domenico Grimani. They laid down round sums, hung the canvas and frightened guests with all mortal sins, hinting, of course, at the same time the owner of the house.
Contemporaries Bosch rather quickly noticed who now in High, picked up the wave and started copying Jerome. Bosch came out of this situation specifically. Not only that he did not suit the hysteria about the plagiarism, he even oversaw copiers! Went in the workshops, followed how a copyist works, gave instructions. Yet it was people of other psychology. Probably, Bosch was trying to be craftped with the image of the devilish images that have frightened simple mortals, it was as much as possible to keep their passions in the ultrasound. And the upbringing of morals was more important than copywriter for Bosch.
All his heritage in relatives distributed the spouse after the death of the artist. Actually, there was nothing more to hand out after him: apparently, all the earthly benefits that he had bought on the money of his wife who came from a rich merchant race.
Jerome Bosch. Garden of earthly pleasure. 1505-1510
When you first look at one of the most mysterious paintings Bosha, you are more likely to have mixed feelings: it attracts and fascinates with a cluster large number Unusual details. At the same time, it is not possible to understand the meaning of this accumulation of parts as in the aggregate and separately.
In such an impression there is nothing surprising: most details are saturated with symbols that are not known to modern person. Only contemporaries Bosch could solve this artistic rebus.
Let's try and we figure out. Let's start with the general meaning of the picture. It consists of four parts.
Closed tripty flaps. world creation
Jerome Bosch. Closed sash tripty "Creation of the World". 1505-1510 The first part (closed tripty flaps). According to the first version - an image of the third day of the creation of the world. There are no man and animals on Earth, the rocks and trees appeared from the water. The second version is the end of our world, after the Ecumenical Flood. In the upper left corner - God, contemplating his creation.
Left sash Triptych. Paradise
Jerome Bosch. Paradise (Left Truptic Soldier "Garden of Earth Delights"). 1505-1510 The second part (Left Treptic Solder). Image of the scene in paradise. God shows the surprised Adam who has just created from his Eva Rib. Around - newly created by God animals. In the background - the fountain and the lake of life, from which the first creatures of our world are published.
The central part of Triptych. Garden of earthly pleasure
Jerome Bosch. The central part of Triptych. 1505-1510 . The third part (central part of triptych). An image of the earthly life of people who massively indulge in the sin of solvents. The artist shows that the sin is so serious that people do not get out of the more righteous way. He brings this thought to us with the help of a kind of procession in a circle:
People on different animals move around the lake of carnal pleasures, unable to choose another road. Therefore, their only yield after death, according to the artist, is the hell, which is depicted on the right sash of triptych.
Triptych's right sash. Hell
Jerome Bosch. Right sash Triptych "hell". 1505-1510 The fourth part (tripty's right sash). An image of hell in which sinners are experiencing eternal flour. In the middle of the painting - a strange creature from a hollow egg, with legs in the form of trees stems with human person - Presumably this is the conductor on hell, main demon. About what kind of sinners he answers read in the article.
Takov total meaning Caution paintings. The hoodist shows us how easy it is to fall into sin and get into hell, despite the fact that once humanity originated in paradise.
Symbols of Bosch painting
Why are there many characters and characters?
I really like this expense theory of Hansa Balting, put forward in 2002. Based on his research, Bosch created this picture not for the church, but for private collection. Allegedly the artist had an agreement with the buyer that he would deliberately create a picture of the rebus. The future owner intended to entertain his guests who would guessed the meaning of one or another scene in the picture.
Similarly, we can now solve the fragments of the picture. However, without understanding the symbols taken during the Bosch times, it is very difficult for us. Let's figure out at least with part of them, so that it is more interesting to "read" the picture.
Taking the "voluptuous" berries and fruits - one of the main symbols of lust. Therefore, there are so many in the garden of earthly pleasures.
People are in glass spheres or under a glass dome. there is netherlands Proverbs, stuck that love is also short-lived and fragile, like glass. The depicted spheres are just covered with cracks. Perhaps the artist sees the path to the fall in this fragility, as after a short period of love, adultery is inevitable.
Sins of Middle Ages
Modern man It is also difficult to interpret the depicted flour of sinners (on the right sash triptych). The fact is that in our consciousness the hobby of idle music or stale (economy) is not perceived as something bad, in contrast to how people perceived in the Middle Ages.
Triptych painting Jerome Bosch "Garden of Jasom Ground". Value, description, photo.
To write about Triptikh Jerome Bosch, known in our time as a "garden of earthly pleasures," means try to describe indescribable and decipher the incomprehensible - an exercise in madness. Nevertheless, there are several points that can be talked with confidence.
This picture was first described in 1517 by the Italian chronicler Antonio de Beatis, who saw her in the palace of Nassau graphs in Brussels. It gives reason to assume that the picture was written to order for graphs. They were influential political players in the Burgundy Netherlands, their palace served for important diplomatic techniques, and the paintings on its walls were to be impressive, emphasizing the status, sensational. It was exactly those who were considered the work of Bosch under his life. These are considered today.
It can be assumed that the "garden of earthly pleasures" should have some appeal, or some particular meaning, for the modern audience. The period when he was written was distinguished by a decrease in the level of religiosity of the population of Europe and, in particular, the Netherlands, the first flowering of capitalism after the cancellation of the guilds. In those days, this triptych was often interpreted as a warning against moral and carnal worldly indulges, but this goal seems pretty prose. In fact, there are very many versions and few agreements regarding accurate value This work. This creative picture begins with Adam and Eve, and ends very figurative, a purely personal representation of the artist about the ADE. No one can know for sure why Bosch imagined the world exactly.
For many, the Garden of Jasom is a picture - this is a picture that shows the creation of the world, sinfulness, the uselessness and ephemeralness of a vulnerable human life. Let's try to figure out how true such a point of view is.
Exterior panels
When Triptych is in a closed position, the external panels made in the artician of the Griezailer are connected, forming an image globewhich looks like a transparent glass vessel, half filled with water. This plot can also be understood in different ways. There are two versions: the first - what is it global floodsent by God to clear the Earth from the swear swallowing it, and the second is that this is the third day of creation by the God of the world when he created the seas, sushi and plants. Some believe that this is the beginning of the life cycle, and others - that this is his end.
The tiny figure of God, keeps the open book, is in the upper left corner of the left panel. The inscription, which passes along the top of both panels, is translated as follows: "He said, and did," he commanded, and appeared "(Psalm 32: 9 and 148: 5).
The external panels contribute to, as if, meditative cleansing the mind for better perception of the further plot. In the internal panels of Triptych shown the path to the pork. It should be noted that this work, like the other Triptych Bosch "WHO SENA" (also depicts the path to sinful drop), is triptych only in form. It is impossible to imagine that it was written to decorate the church altar. Though in it and there is a biblical theme, on its central and large panels are not depicted religious figures or scene. It seems that Bosch, wondered him as completely new form Pivot Triptych, which operated as a home theater included on the Renaissance Channel, at home in rich customers.
Left part of triptych: God introduces Eve Adam (Paradise)
In this part, God is depicted, on the background of a madman's unusual landscape, he brings Eve to Adam. Although their figures are located in the center, in the foreground, other creatures in this paradise garden, such as elephant, giraffe, unicorn and other hybrid and less recognizable animals, as well as birds, fish, other water creatures, snakes and insects are also important, After all, they are drawn on a rather large scale, relative to the figures of biblical characters.
Introduction of a woman to a man, in such a situation, can underscore not only creative potential God, but also the reproductive ability of a person. In the hierarchy of God's creations, Adam and Eve are the most bold achievements of the Father of Heaven, as if, after he created everything else, he thought that he needed to leave his mark in the world in which he could recognize himself. But these are already guesses arising during the transition to viewing the central part of Triptych. Wanted Bosch to say that the creation of a person who god presented the right to free choice may have been his mistake?
Central panel: the height of the life cycle
This is the panel, due to which the picture received its name "garden of earthly pleasures." Here, the people drawn by Bosch, descendants of Adam and Eve, frolic naked in the Surrealistic Paradise Garden. They, as if, are small parts of one big painting of nature. But what exactly do people in this place remain a question for many. The impressions of the double, because if we take into account the right side of the triptych, you can decide what this stage, despite its external beauty And physical friend, is simply meaningless, the beginning of the end.
Some figures overtaken berries, take them from birds or strange hybrid creatures; In the middle of the procession of men, riding various animals, accompanied by birds, around a small lake where women are bathed. According to some researchers, this ride in a circle is one of the characters that so often used in their pictures Bosch - A vicious circle of earthly life, something similar to the eastern wheel of Sansary. There is a fragment, where in the natural hole of a person, the flowers are stitching, but in general there is no something too frank, excessively sexual and vulgar. Some believe that gluttony berries implies, in fact, the glorification of mushrooms (hallucinogenic). In the end, there are moments that reflect human carelessness, but not final viciousness.
Perhaps Ieronim Bosch wanted to show what a person's place in a large divine car of nature, like Lucretia, that all matter consists of atoms that come to form a reasonable and when it dies, these atoms return to their origins to be rebuilt into several Other shape. This process and forms nature, and man and nature are not distinguished by nothing but the free will of a person. Bosch could be concerned about human behavior. Our mind is our destruction. Each person has blood pressure is just that he can imagine, Bosch was more ingenious than most. He was very peculiar, distinctive and talented. His ability to visualize imaginary landscapes made it as popular as three centuries later Salvador Dali, who was also a virtuoso visionary. To people such a sense, you can still include Lewis Carroll.
Right part of triptych. End of the story about the joys of the earth (hell)
Bosch left the most interesting finance. Perhaps he imagined the blood pressure, or wanted to show something that leads satisfaction. On the background of black, sullen, as prison, urban walls, dark silhouettes, flame area. Everywhere human bodies They are in groups, collected in the army or are subjected to strange toys from unusually dressed executioners and animal demons.
Below are equally disturbing images of creatures that seem intended for processing human flesh. Bird, ascending as on the throne, swallows people and is proceeding with them into a pit, in which the faces of other people can see. Nearby, in the same pit there is another unfortunate man.
In general, the bodies, as it were, are cleaned by the demons, black birds, with the help of vomiting and blood, it uses many different tools.
Big focus is made on musical instruments. They, as symbols of evil distraction, deceptive promises, self-deception. Big ears Surprised, although already amazed with a knife. This is a strong hint of deceitability of feelings. In fact, many symbols and torture are rather standard here, as in the picture "Seven fatal sins, when the feelings are deceiving the thoughts when Potakaya his desires come to supercondancy ...
One main element here, however, requires some explanation - a central figure, a certain "Saltay-Boltai". He seems to watch what is happening. The crawled shell of his body is attached to the feet-branches of the dead tree. Art historian Hans Balting suggested that this is a self-portrait of Bosch, but many do not agree with it. It can also illustrate the presence of control, human consciousness in the center of all these terrible events.
While the mind of Bosch (if it is a self-portrait) can be distracted by thoughts about lusting, which symbolizes a habit, successfully balancing on his head, in the cavity of his body, three tiny figures are sitting at the table, as if dining. These three figures resemble Being 18.2, in which God comes to Abraham, accompanied by two angels (everyone is masked under ordinary people) And Abraham, no doubt, provides them with hospitality. In a reward, God grants the wonderful pregnancy of Abraham's wife, Sarah. Wonderful because Sarah was already too old for childbirth a woman. This child will be the first of the future of the great tribe chosen by God. "Blessed people whose Lord has God." God with angels go to Sodom and Gomorra to see what is happening there. Abraham uses this opportunity, going with God. "Will you destroy the righteous with the wicked?" - he asks. Also, this plot resembles the events described in Psaltyr 33.12.
All this triptych as if asked whether God could, the world and giving a man blessing, or a curse, free will, destroy all his creations and destroy humanity, failed. There is a fundamental connection between the plot of the internal panels and the image on the outside of the side flaps. The message of Bosch, if it is, may mean that we can choose good, and not evil, otherwise we can be revealed. A person suggests, and God has.