2021-04-02

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Great Art Explained

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.

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

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In this video I look at Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights. Nobody painted Hell quite like Bosch. What we think of as Hell, and certainly what Bosch thought of as Hell is not based on the bible. There is no mention of Hell as a fiery place of eternal damnation in the original bible, and much of what we think of as hell comes from later mistranslations and medieval art.

I have based my research around the Bible, Medieval history, infrared scans, art history papers, books and historical documents.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?

What we think of as hell, and certainly what Bosch thought of as hell is not based on the bible. There is no mention of hell as a fiery place of eternal damnation in the original bible, and much of what we think of as hell comes from later mistranslations and medieval art. What hell is or like, or whether it exists in the bible at all is widely disputed even within modern Christianity.

The late middle-ages were a pivotal moment in European history. Explorers were discovering new exotic lands, Leonardo da Vinci was painting the Mona Lisa, Copernicus proposed that the sun was at the centre of our solar system and Erasmus was exploring radical new ideas. The last bloody battles of the Hundred Years War had been fought and now Christian Europe was facing an onslaught by the Ottoman Empire. It was the eve of the Reformation and Europe was experiencing the first stirrings of a spiritual crisis, and yet it was also the height of the Spanish inquisition.

In S’Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands a man called Hieronymus Bosch had no idea that a painting he was working on would still confound and confuse viewers five centuries after he painted it.

Everything in this paradise of pleasure has some kind of sexual connotation. Hollowed out fruit is referring to female genitalia – two cherries together, male genitalia. In the middle ages, to pluck fruit in Dutch was a euphemism for sex and the Dutch word, Vogelen meaning bird was a double entendre for sexual intercourse. All of these pleasures are transient as none of earth’s pleasures will last.

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Absolutely brilliant history of Hell. I love this channel -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