Week 12: Kathryn: The Garden of Earthly Delights

The Garden of Earthly Delights is considered to be Hieronymus Bosch's most well-known work of art. Honestly, I find the whole triptych rather confusing. It is hard to tell exactly what is going on and how the three panels relate to each other. Overall, I do feel like it is a representation of the Creation, but that seems to primarily take place on the far left. As it moves to the right, the paintings become darker, literally with light and figuratively with the subject matter. It seems almost like a story. The far left represents the beginning of the Creation. This is clear through the depiction of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The far right represents the fall of mankind. In essence, the triptych can be read from left to right as events in chronological order.