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The Garden of Earthly Delights
c. 1490-1510
Creation, pleasure and punishment spread across a visionary ecosystem of human desire.
Artist field note
Hieronymus Bosch
Moral imagination takes the form of impossible worlds.
Appears inNetherlands & Belgium
The five in one idea
Bosch gave human folly a visual universe whose strangeness remains disturbingly legible.