Netherlandish Northern Renaissance Painter, ca.1450-1516 Bosch produced several triptychs. Among his most famous is The Garden of Earthly Delights. This painting depicts paradise with Adam and Eve and many wondrous animals on the left panel, the earthly delights with numerous nude figures and tremendous fruit and birds on the middle panel, and hell with depictions of fantastic punishments of the various types of sinners on the right panel. When the exterior panels are closed the viewer can see, painted in grisaille, God creating the Earth. These paintings have a rough surface from the application of paint; this contrasts with the traditional Flemish style of paintings, where the smooth surface attempts to hide the fact that the painting is man-made. Bosch never dated his paintings and may have signed only some of them (other signatures are certainly not his). Fewer than 25 paintings remain today that can be attributed to him. Philip II of Spain acquired many of Bosch's paintings after the painter's death; as a result, the Prado Museum in Madrid now owns several of his works, including The Garden of Earthly Delights.
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mk248 detta ar en av boscbs mesr landa malningar ocb mittpariet i en valdig panoramatriptyk, kompositionen ar rn masterlig genom det astt pa vilket ban manipulerar askadaren att betrakta de oliks sktiviatetsfaltrn i bilden. an i dag rader det delade meningar om boscbs syfte mes verlet mellan dem som anser att det visar en varld som banger sig at syndiga nojen ocb dem som tror att det ar sa manniskorna skulle ba levat om inte syndafallet intraffat.