Jeffery L. Wright Humanities 540 Professor Pat Gamon 23 February 2005 <Tab/> The Nature of The Garden of Earthly Delights. <Tab/>Very little is known about the great artist Hieronymus Bosch and even less about his painting The Garden of Earthly Delights. Bosch has intrigued many art historians for a number of reasons. First, many have been unable to fit his life and his work into some sort of understandable …showed first 75 words of 461 total…

…showed last 75 words of 461 total…hidden inside Bosch's painting. Perhaps there is a hidden message for those practicing a secret religion and during this time this type of practice amounted to heresy which could have led to death. Yet nothing in the painting suggests this. Finally, perhaps Bosch painted The Garden of Earthly Delights for the viewer to enjoy it images that delight the eye and challenge the imagination. The debate, according to the facts, is still open for discussion.