The Garden Of Earthly Delights

[Minx]

@AnnieS

I thought Dutch?

My bad.

[Morticia]

@AnnieS

There is a bit on wiki about how there is a recent interpretation of this as a political message. This was at a time when the area he was in was being battled over by the French and Germans (or whatever the same groups were called back then). Not that I know much of the detail of the history, but it seems to make more sense that the painting is a political satire protected by a religious mask.

I’m not sure … the Church was to be feared then. Would it win him brownie points if he was portraying hellfire and brimstone.
I’ve no idea who his patrons were, if he had any … most artists. musicians or ‘learned’ men couldn’t survive without powerful protection back in those grisly days.

[Harbal]

@AnnieS

It’s all on wiki (the font of all wisdom)

It seems I’ve roped myself into embarking on a major exercise in study by starting this thread.

[AnnieS]

@Morticia

I’m not sure … the Church was to be feared then. Would it win him brownie points if he was portraying hellfire and brimstone.
I’ve no idea who his patrons were, if he had any … most artists. musicians or ‘learned’ men couldn’t survive without powerful protection back in those grisly days.

he had many commissions. Seemed successful compared to some artists of the time.

[Morticia]

@Harbal

It seems I’ve roped myself into embarking on a major exercise in study by starting this thread.

Serves you right … never let it be said that it’s not educational on here.

I was clever. I just sat back and admired you.

[AnnieS]

@Harbal

It seems I’ve roped myself into embarking on a major exercise in study by starting this thread.

Art history is a fascinating topic if you have the time. I mean in those days people didn’t have any other way to express their politics than by covert symbols in art work. Saying it out loud was a death sentence. We have it so easy now.

[Morticia]

Here we go … we can all get our teeth into this …

15 Things You Should Know About The Garden of Earthly Delights

[Morticia]

@AnnieS

Art history is a fascinating topic if you have the time. I mean in those days people didn’t have any other way to express their politics than by covert symbols in art work. Saying it out loud was a death sentence. We have it so easy now.

Or vice versa… artists had to conform to the prescribed religious icons.
Either way … some of the art is rather beautiful

[Harbal]

I’m quite taken aback at the interest this thread has provoked. And to think I almost opted for a thread about my favourite washing up liquid.

[Morticia]

@Harbal

I’m quite taken aback at the interest this thread has provoked. And to think I almost opted for a thread about my favourite washing up liquid.

Oh I do love your droll humour.
I was just about to post and tell you to start more threads like these … They’re certainly different and make a nice change. It’s been one of the most interesting for a long while.
So is the one about Churches and Graveyards.
Oh, and I would have said Fairy Liquid but it always makes Mr M sneeze.

[Harbal]

@Morticia

Here we go … we can all get our teeth into this …

Well I guess that’s my Monday spoken for.

[AnnieS]

@Harbal

I’m quite taken aback at the interest this thread has provoked. And to think I almost opted for a thread about my favourite washing up liquid.

Not wishing to derail the thread, but what is your favourite washing up liquid?

[AnnieS]

@Morticia

Oh, and I would have said Fairy Liquid but it always makes Mr M sneeze.

[Harbal]

@Morticia

Oh I do love your droll humour.
I was just about to post and tell you to start more threads like these … They’re certainly different and make a nice change. It’s been one of the most interesting for a long while.
So is the one about Churches and Graveyards.
Oh, and I would have said Fairy Liquid but it always makes Mr M sneeze.

Well one does what one can to maintain standards, Morticia.

[Harbal]

@AnnieS

Not wishing to derail the thread, but what is your favourite washing up liquid?

None, actually. Washing up liquid makes a terrible mess of my hands; they go very dry and cracked. I have to wear rubber gloves.

[Morticia]

E45 cream Harbal … wonderful stuff … for hands that do dishes …

[AnnieS]

I wonder what happens if you put washing up liquid into the washing machine…

[Morticia]

A helluva lot of suds?

[AnnieS]

@Morticia

A helluva lot of suds?

a bit like that trick with coke and menthos mints?

[Morticia]

Oh … what’s that one? Never heard of that.