HEAVEN / HELL
Much concerned with man's wickedness,
Show 2 pics wings from one of Bosch's triptychs he bought and which is therefore
still in Spain.On the left wewatch evil invading the world.The creation
of Eve is followed by the temptation of Adam and both are driven out
of Paradise .while high above in the sky we see the fall of the rebellious
angels,who are hurled from heaven as a swarm of repulsive insects.On the
other wing we are shown a vision of hell.There we see horror piled upon horror,fires and torments and all manner of fearful demons,half animal,half human or half machine,who plague and punish the poor sinful souls
for all eternity.For the first and perhaps for the only time,an artist had
succeeded in giving concrete and tangible shape to the fears that had
haunted the minds of man in the Middle Ages.It was an achievement which was perhaps on;y possible at this very moment,when the old ideas
were still vigorous and yet the modern spirit had provided the artist with
methods of representing what he saw.Perhaps Hieronymus Bosch could
have written on one of his paintings of hell what Jan van Eyck wrote on
his peaceful scene of the Amolfmis ' betrothal" I was there'.
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Show 2 pics wings from one of Bosch's triptychs he bought and which is therefore
still in Spain.On the left wewatch evil invading the world.The creation
of Eve is followed by the temptation of Adam and both are driven out
of Paradise .while high above in the sky we see the fall of the rebellious
angels,who are hurled from heaven as a swarm of repulsive insects.On the
other wing we are shown a vision of hell.There we see horror piled upon horror,fires and torments and all manner of fearful demons,half animal,half human or half machine,who plague and punish the poor sinful souls
for all eternity.For the first and perhaps for the only time,an artist had
succeeded in giving concrete and tangible shape to the fears that had
haunted the minds of man in the Middle Ages.It was an achievement which was perhaps on;y possible at this very moment,when the old ideas
were still vigorous and yet the modern spirit had provided the artist with
methods of representing what he saw.Perhaps Hieronymus Bosch could
have written on one of his paintings of hell what Jan van Eyck wrote on
his peaceful scene of the Amolfmis ' betrothal" I was there'.
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