The Garden of Delights

Bosch: The Garden of Delights (1504) - Prado, Madrid

This famous painting was made by Bosch, this painting is his best known and most ambitious complete work.This painting is painted in oil on oak and is formed from a square middle panel flanked by two other oak rectangular wings that close over the centre as shutters. The outer wings, when folded, show a grisaille painting of the earth during the biblical narrative of Creation.