Interactive 'Garden of Earthly Delights'

[commondenom]

The Garden of Earthly Delights is the modern title[1] given to a triptych painted by the Early Netherlandish master Hieronymus Bosch, housed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid since 1939. It dates from between 1490 and 1510, when Bosch was between about 40 and 60 years old,[2] and is his best-known[3] and most ambitious surviving work.[4]

The triptych is painted in oil on oak and is formed from a square middle panel flanked by two other oak rectangular wings that close over the center as shutters. The outer wings, when folded, show a grisaille painting of the earth during the biblical narrative of Creation. The three scenes of the inner triptych are probably (but not necessarily) intended to be read chronologically from left to right. The left panel depicts God presenting Eve to Adam, the central panel is a broad panorama of socially engaged nude figures, fantastical animals, oversized fruit and hybrid stone formations. The right panel is a hellscape and portrays the torments of damnation.

(above description from wikipedia)


the link below will take you to an interactive site of the painting with many icons that have audio explaining the details of this most amazing work of art. It's also possible to zoom in very close and see those details in super high resolution.

Sound effects are added to the site so that they match the area you are looking at....they're actually really well done, getting more broad as you zoom out and more focused as you zoom in....

https://tuinderlusten-jheronimusbosch.ntr.nl/en#

[TheFallOfTroyML]

didnt believed how interested i can become with art

watched/listened to the whole shit, very cool

[sevens7ar]

This is amazing!
I never understood art, but this has enlightened me to the emotions one can feel from experiencing art.
I looked at it for hours.
I must admit, I'm a bit of a tin foil hatter and spent a bit of time trying to correlate depictions in the art work to extra terrestrial beings or objects, but I didn't find anything.
But, the person who painted this must have had access to some good quality dmt type molecule to imagine up some of those things.
Either way, thank you for posting this! I'm highly intrigued now.

[commondenom]

nice....i'm glad you enjoyed it....i've spent hours going through all the icons and looking at all the tiny details...

[indybob]

really cool

[Ninjavandal]

Well now, those are rather strange.