2021-04-09

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Great Art Explained

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Note: I have combined all three parts of this video and made a longer video with some extra stuff I left out due to time (/youtube/video/vBG621XEegk I also re-recorded the sound with better technology. I recommend going straight to the longer video, but will leave the short ones up if people want the 15-minute chunks.

This video explains my viewpoint on hell -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s25-6Fq7PM8

The Garden of Earthly Delights was the most popular video(s) voted on by viewers. I am still taking suggestions, so please put them on the comments of my video "what is your favourite work of art?"

The painting was just too complex and detailed to deal with in fifteen minutes, so I made it in three parts.

There are no records to tell us what Bosch or his contemporaries were thinking. There are so many theories out there, some more outlandish than others.

I have sifted through most of them, and from a process of elimination, come up with what I think is a pretty good idea. I have also come up with several ideas I haven’t seen before.

In part three I discuss possible meanings, of the final and most controversial panel, Hell. The previous scenes are set in nature, but hell is a man made world. There is nothing here that they have not brought on themselves, and even the musical instruments they created have turned on them.

The demons are clothed but the humans, or souls, are still naked. But they have lost any element of eroticism, and many of them are covering their bodies, ashamed of their nakedness.

I have based my research around the Bible, Medieval history, infrared scans, art history papers and books and historical documents. But in the end it is still my opinion. If you have an opinion, then why not put it in the comments, and keep the dialogue going!

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https://youtu.be/taAxpw03dgM Fire Footage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2X0iohiTXQ&t=42s Den Bosch footage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERJmCNMfqxg&t=297s St. John’s - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o2OdoRtNlE Sotheby’s - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD_nwg9CMzw Bird eye view over Denbosch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izB5146ixfc https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCePDFpCr78_qmVtpoB1Axaw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s25-6Fq7PM8 Fire Footage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2X0iohiTXQ&t=42s Den Bosch footage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERJmCNMfqxg&t=297s St. John’s - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o2OdoRtNlE Sotheby’s - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD_nwg9CMzw Bird eye view over Denbosch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izB5146ixfc Black Africans in

BOOKS

Renaissance Europe Illustrated Edition by T. F. Earle (Editor), K. J. P. Lowe (Editor)

Hieronymus Bosch ́s The Garden Of Earthly Delights: The Senses and the Soul by Meinhard Michael

Between Heaven and Hell published by Taschen

Hieronymus Bosch ́s The Garden Of Earthly Delights by Hans Belting

The story of Art by Gombrich

All the videos on the Prado website were invaluable.