ART 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Birds Eye View, Studio Glass, Purgatory
Art 102 - Lecture 13
Artist: Bosch
Painting; garden of earthly delights
Year: 1505- 1510
Format: oil on wood
Painting
- Triptych format
- many small figures
- probably an altar piece function
- need to be looked at closely
- winds up in Madrid’s royal
Bosch
- from Holland
- does not display italianate characteristics
Middle panel
- depicts town- wide party
- crowds and less centralized composition
- high points of view
- looking down (birds eye view)
- Bosch understands perspectives
- buildings- flesh, fruit,
- objects coming from chemist studio - glass tubes
- out of place objects:
- mermaids, mermen
- dear attacking human
- honor strawberry
- birds bigger than humans
- bird, fish: penis
- shells,: female genitalia
- fruit used in strange locations
alchemist associations
- objects looking like glass but w/ natural characteristics
whole composition is mass of people doing different things
- fruit - related to pleasures
- strawberry: represents quick pleasure
Left panel
- fantasy based land
- exotic animals - elephant, giraffes, unicorn
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