Decoding the Symbolic Meaning of The Garden of Earthly Delights
‘The Sins of the World’ and ‘The Wages of Sin’
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The Garden of Earthly Delights is one of the most intricate and detailed paintings in historical art. An oil painting on oak panel, painted by the Early Netherlandish artist Hieronymus Bosch.
This painting is a sequential narrative of the Creation of Eve and Adam in the left panel followed by worldly indulgence and sexual pleasure in the central panel and subsequently leading man straight to Hell in the right one.
This painting was painted in the early 15th century and is housed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid since the year 1939.
As very little is known about Bosch’s life and career, there have been numerous scholarly interpretations particularly on the central panel of the painting.
The 20th-century art historians have constantly debated whether the central panel conveys the message to shun fleeting pleasures of life or it depicts the panorama of the lost world.
