Three surviving panels by Bosch represent an intriguing view of impact of the passage of time upon art. One panel is the Death and the Miser in the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. In this painting a miser... perhaps once a mercenary, as suggested by the armor and weapons placed so prominently in the foreground... is seen simultaneously in in two poses. He checks upon his wealth... ...
Updated 11-18-2008 at 10:39 PM by stlukesguild
With The Garden of Earthly Delights (c. 1505) we come to Bosch's "masterpiece" and the painting for which he is deservedly most well-known. With this painting, Bosch pulled together various elements and threads that he had explored throughout the whole of his career and organized them into a single, virtually flawless, complex whole. The painting, housed in the Prado, Madrid, is a triptych. We may as well start by looking at the exterior doors: ...
Updated 11-18-2008 at 11:21 PM by stlukesguild
Like many artists, I have played at the game of what painting I would want to take with me on the proverbial desert island. Inevitably, I have been drawn to the Garden of Earthly Delights. The layers of meaning... the complexity... the contrast and variation from the most noble ideals... to lush sensuality... physical beauty... and eroticism... to the almost exquisite brutality... horror... ugliness... Such leads me to feel that I might easily spend endless hours with this work without ever feeling ...
Updated 11-18-2008 at 11:55 PM by stlukesguild
BREAKING NEWS: Angelina Jolie, too busy reading 'Great Expectations', to have sex with husband Gotcha! There were rumours - of doubtful veracity -that Angelina Jolie used IVF treatment because she couldn't wait for Brad Pitt to do his part like a dutiful husband but I doubt that act of desperation was because she was too busy reading ...
Updated 02-25-2009 at 07:41 AM by optimisticnad
Now i am working in a foreign trade company. I am very afraid of my boss and sometimes I think I am very stupid and my English is not good.The most important thing is it seems that there is generation between boss and I. Dear everybody,I need your help and support And I have 2 questions as follow: 1: "The 10% discount amounts to £5.30, what do I have to do to get it back??" In this sentence, what the speaker actually mean? Does think 10% discount ...
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