Hieronymus Bosch

Garden of Earthly Delights — visionary nightmares

The most enigmatic painter in Western art. The Garden of Earthly Delights — a triptych of Paradise, earthly pleasures, and Hell teeming with thousands of bizarre hybrid creatures — has resisted definitive interpretation for five centuries. No one painted like him before; no one has since. The Surrealists claimed him as a forerunner.

Key works

• The Garden of Earthly Delights~1500— Paradise, pleasure, and Hell — inexhaustible and unexplained
  Museo del Prado, Madrid
• The Temptation of St Anthony~1501— A saint besieged by demons of staggering invention
  Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon

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