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For your questions on riddles of #HieronymusBosch #latemedieval #earlyrenaissance #art #symbolism . Images can be enhanced for visibility. (Generally no content warning for 500+ years old works of art.)

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Caseiokey @caseiokey.bsky.social · 7h

It’s the people crushing Ears-Knife machine.

Caseiokey @caseiokey.bsky.social · 11h

Da Vinci and Bosch/Studio had similar objects, here armored tanks.

L: Da Vinci drawing, ca.1485.
(M: later model after the drawing)
R: Last Judgment/Vienna, ca.1500AD. KHM Wien.

The tanks have a big round protection on the upside, with a small additional element on top. Below the big shielding top are cannons or a cannon, and more protective shields. On the Bosch version, a side wheel is visible.

Caseiokey @caseiokey.bsky.social · 12h

A contemporary of Hieronymus Bosch was Leonardo da Vinci.

Da Vinci's Last Supper features one knife, belonging to Peter.
Imo this could refer to John 18:10-11, where Peter -later!- cut off Malchus' right ear with his sword during Jesus' arrest.

Now compare Bosch's Ears-War Machine-
Peter’s knife?!

The Da Vinci detail with the knife in the hand of one of the apostles, is from the Last Supper fresco in Milan, of 1495-98.

The Bosch detail of a giant pair of ears with a big knife in between is from the Garden triptych, ca.1500AD. At the Prado, Madrid. #NetherlandishArt.

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Caseiokey @caseiokey.bsky.social · 1d

Some animals on the original design of the Haywain had to go.
But we got nice plants and fruits, and a bird back!

Caseiokey @caseiokey.bsky.social · 2d

The posh lady does not just offer food.
Bosch may be playing with the text from one of the legends around St.Anthony:
the Devil tried to tempt the recluse with GOLD AND SILVER (in Vitas Patrum ch.11+2, ref. Fischer).

Caseiokey @caseiokey.bsky.social · 2d

“You can’t get them any fresher!”

Caseiokey @caseiokey.bsky.social · 2d

Genesis 3:24
“So he drove out the man; and he placed at
the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims,
and a flaming sword which turned every way,
to keep the way of the tree of life.”

Left panel of the Haywain. Hieronymus Bosch >=1510.
At the Prado museum.

Caseiokey @caseiokey.bsky.social · 2d

Indecent proposal

Caseiokey @caseiokey.bsky.social · 3d

Bosch depicted the PELICAN feeding its chickens.
It’s a symbol of Christ offering his life & blood 🩸.
Imo the painter may refer to this symbol with similar birds having a red berry in their beaks, a.o. on the Magi work.

Is the Eurasian Jay on the Love Garden satirizing this?

The Pelican feeding its young is on the St.John on Patmos work’s outside.
The jewel depicting a similar bird is on the Female Martyr painting.
The rest are on Magi works.

Scene from the center panel of the Garden triptych.

Caseiokey @caseiokey.bsky.social · 3d

Het gebeurt…

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Caseiokey @caseiokey.bsky.social · 3d

This