From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Thu Jul 04 2002 - 01:28:57 MDT
Serafino:
>here are not nano-things here, but something extropic
>for sure, and very old too
In case you don't know who is the artist
(I didn't know who was Bosch until just a few weeks ago)
HIERONYMUS VAN AEKEN BOSCH, "EL BOSCO"(1450-1516)
THE GARDEN OF DELIGHTS or "LA PINTURA DEL MADROŅO"
This painting is hanging in the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain.
http://museoprado.mcu.es/prado/html/i38.html
Wooden Triptych (206 x 386 cm)
Flemish School Gothic 15th-16th Centuries Hall 56a
quote from the above Web site:
"This painting is the most famous, most studied and the most enigmatic
and difficult to analyse of all those painted by Bosch. On the left is
the Creation of Man; in the centre are the worldly pleasures and sins;
and Hell with its punishments for all those sins on the right. Some art
critics believe that Bosch may have painted this work as an illustration
of the beliefs of a heretical sect, called the Adamites -from the
nakedness of Adam- which believed in nudism and free sexual relations.
In general, however, it is thought that, as is the case throughout
Bosch's work, that it is a moral satire on the destiny of human nature,
with a great number of symbols that still have not been satisfactorily
interpreted."
More on Bosch:
http://cgi.di.uoa.gr/~grad0146/English/works.html
Amara
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