TV Show: Renaissance Revolution
Aired on: 8:15 PM on October 23rd, 2010 – Saturday
Channel: BBC TWO Channel
Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 2
Episode Name: Hieronymus Bosch – The Garden Of Earthly Delights
Preview:
In the second programme of his new series on Renaissance painting, artist and writer Matthew Collings steps into the mysterious invented world of The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, painted c.1505.
This imposing work, full of strange and fantastical details, contains one of the most famous images in all of art: a man with a tree for a body, who gazes out at us from the section of the painting representing hell. The tree-man’s face is generally thought to be the artist’s self-portrait but, like almost everything else about Hieronymus Bosch – including the meaning of this, his most famous painting – no one knows for sure.
Using the latest high-resolution digital technology, Matthew Collings is able to explore this extraordinary painting in minute detail and unravel some of the arcane messages that Bosch has woven into it through his use of symbols and unsettling inversions of scale – giant birds drop fruit into the mouths of nude humans, slithering creatures invade paradise, a devil-bird devours a man whole.
Renaissance Revolution Season 1 Episode 2 Hieronymus Bosch - The Garden Of Earthly Delights
