2021-04-16

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Great Art Explained

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This is all three short videos edited together, with some extra scenes added that I originally left out due to time constraints. It is also edited to flow more as a longer film, and I re-recorded the sound with better technology.

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

"What a brilliant series this is" - Stephen Fry on Twitter 12 December 2020

"Thoroughly researched and cleverly presented, with stunning visuals, Great Art Explained makes you realise that familiarity with a work of art sometimes makes us indifferent to its power" - Forbes Magazine, 9 July 2020

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

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.

I have based my research around the Bible, Medieval history, infrared scans, art history papers and books and historical documents.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

All the videos, songs, images, and graphics used in the video belong to their respective owners and I or this channel does not claim any right over them. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.

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

Intro music: JS Bach “Sonata for violin solo No.1 in G Minor”

Prado videos -https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3jXKn8og2bSmbqLG3B32ow

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.