Visit The Garden of Earthly Delights

Hieronymus Bosch, born Jheronimus van Aken (c. 1450 – 9 August 1516) arguably had the wildest, most fantastical imagination in art history — painting our deepest fears, our deepest desires. This August the art world will mark 500 years since his death. “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” is widely recognized as his best known surviving work.

The dimensions of the triptych is quite impressive — 7′ 3″ x 12′ 9″. It was created in  1503–1515, on display at Museo Nacional Del Prado. Seeing it “live”  is a treat to any art lover, but only a few could afford to spend hours on end to take in every detail of the masterpiece. 

That is what I’ve done just now — an hour and a half of “earthly delight” with the painting, not leaving my desk, making screen shots. 

 All thanks to the interactive documentary Jheronimus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights —an in-depth tour though The Garden.  It’s a web interface, a transmedia tryptich, where the visitor is taken on an audio-visual journey, including sound, music, video and images to enrich the storytelling.The transmedia tryptich consists of the documentary film ‘Hieronymus Bosch, touched by the devil’, the interactive documentary ‘Hieronymus Bosch: Garden of Earthly Delights’ and the Virtual Reality documentary ‘Hieronymus Bosch, the Eyes of the Owl’.If you haven’t been there already, take a tour. It’s a truly unique experience.Whether you like Bosch or not, it’ll be worth your while. Follow the link to The Garden. You’ll be delighted.