The Garden of Earthly Delights

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1. Take a Fresh Look at Bosch's Earthly Delights
Subscribe to this free newsletter and see more of this painting than you could in a year in the Prado battling the crowds.
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December 2023

Video 10. Three Stories of Motherly Love
Let's not sprain our brain looking for symbols when there is so much more to discover in front of our eyes.
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November 2023

Video 9. The Swindling Swine and the Suffering Soul
There's only one person in Hell who is really tormented – and it's grief she is suffering from, not sin.
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3-min VIDEO: The Princess and the Presumptuous Vulgarian
One of Bosch's curious little comedies, hiding in plain sight.
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October 2023

Getting to the Bottom of Bosch's Fundamentals
A little animation helps bring to life some of the action in Bosch's underworld
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The Puzzle of the Plainest Lady in the Garden Panel
A 5-minute video looking at one of the most remarkable but least remarked women in the triptych.
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Bosch's Under-Appreciated Women
His reputation as a moralist and scourge of folly has obscured his intensely sympathetic treatment of women. We begin in Hell, with this 8-minute video.
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Video: How Bosch's birds and berries led humanity into grievous temptation
The spirit of the Garden turns out to be less lust and more liquor: a fearsome Iberian aguardiente
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September 2023

The first of a series of 3-minute introductory videos
So much has been unnoticed, unregistered, unobserved.
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Video: The Revelation That Illuminates the Garden
A theory of the triptych that allows even the things that don't fit – to fit.
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August 2023

May 2023

BOSCH'S 101 EXTRA DELIGHTS
How the painting reveals itself when we just look into it
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