2021-03-26

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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

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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. 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 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?"

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 theories I haven’t seen before.

Bosch’s images are so ambiguous and their meaning so elusive, that they cannot be addressed by iconography alone. This is an attempt to look at as much evidence as possible, to come up with some form of meaning. Even so, there are still multiple interpretations.

I have based my research around the Bible, Medieval history, infrared scans, art history papers, books and historical documents.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

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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