TREE-MEN & OTHERS WITH BRANCHES
can be found more often in Hieronymus Bosch’ oeuvre of around 1500AD.
*They are all demonic
*16c Rhetoricians called sinners “barren trees” and
“withered branches”
*it has a link to biblical passages like Luke 23:31 etc.
The disobedience caused disorder in the Creation,
and so humanity inherited sin and guilt.
(<Augustine)
Detail of the Haywain triptych - Hieronymus Bosch. Ca.>=1510AD.
At the Prado museum. #NetherlandishArt
Hieronymus Bosch seems to have been quite inspired by Rogier van Weyden’s Lamentation of ca. 1460-63,
now at the Uffizi Gallery, Florence; detail.
At BOTTOM: the “Bar Brawl scene” on the “Hell” panel of the Garden triptych ~1500AD. At the Prado museum.
Both #netherlandishart
Seeing a light reflection in the lake, I noticed that there was no light source!
Comparing Infra-Red imagery we see that there was originally a substantial lighted area in the building.
We can only speculate why Bosch blackened that area.
More buildings are less visible now too-
Detail from the Garden of Earthly Delights - Hieronymus Bosch ~1500AD. At the Prado museum. #NetherlandishArt.
It’s not entirely clear what Bosch painted here.
It may not even be Hell.
Knowing other work, it links to the Last Judgment.
Even if that isn’t visible.
The utter chaos of Doomsday is shown, combined with visions of Afterlife. Much may be Purgatory.
There IS some Hope, hidden…
Details from the right panel of the Garden of Earthly Delights triptych, by Hieronymus Bosch ca.1500.
#NetherlandishArt now at the Prado museum, Madrid.On
A PICTURE IS WORTH A 1000 WORDS
The Master spent considerable time to get the face right.
He’s looking back at his life of working with high patrons that led questionable lifestyles, with a guilty glance-
and a little smile, Mona Lisa worthy.
Detail of the Afterlife panel of the Garden of Earthly Delights triptych -Hieronymus Bosch ~1500; at the Prado Museum, Madrid. #NetherlandishArt
Best explanation of the bittern at LEFT, so far:
it’s a sacrilegious transformation by Bosch of the symbol of the pelican (Christ) feeding its young by its ‘blood’,
i.e. His offer at Passion.
Here the Bittern is eating its young…!
The whole triptych is about Satan’s trials of pious Anthony.
Ca. 1500. At MNAA Lisbon. #netherlandishart
#XForming
Old Dutch saying:
“Bedelaars scheuren hunne kleêren,
om medelijden te verwekken.”
[Beggars tear their clothes, to arouse pity]
=<1635 Har.1.p.36.
In this line, blindness & bandage are fake too.
And children perhaps aren’t his own.
#HaywainBoschPrado museum >1510.
#NetherlandishArt
Of course, the most likely proverb for this scene by Bosch of ~1500 is
“Iemand in den aars kruipen” documented <=1726
[“To crawl up someone's ass”].
In similar ways used in art by the Breugel family 50-100 years after Bosch.
#GardenDelightsBosch at Prado museum, Madrid.
#NetherlandishArt
FOUNTAIN-MOUNTAIN FULFILLS
on the Haywain, imo, the same function as
Face-Rock on the Garden triptych.
They both symbolize the presence of the Devil (the Fallen Prince) in Eden.
Hieronymus Bosch’s works of >1510 resp. ~1500 are in the Prado Museum in Madrid. #netherlandishart
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