We saw Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Early Delights in the Prado three years ago in Madrid, but this episode of Smarthistory is like having your own guided tour through the weirdness. Definitely watch it on the biggest screen you have! There’s just so much to look at, and they do a good job of explaining why it’s unlike every other painting done at this time. Plus it’s really funny listening to art historians trying to describe things like “a bird man on a toilet pooping out a water balloon filled with the people he’s just eaten”. (Link courtesy of Colossal.)
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