The inverted Triptych by Hieronymus Bosch
Résumé
In the Renaissance, to say that an Italian was "furbo" (tricker) was a compliment. In those days
trickery - like facetiousness and mischief - was the hallmark of great minds,
gifted minds, we would say more specifically today. Leonardo da Vinci may be renowned for the excellence of his pictorial achievements, but the intelligence of his works seen through the prism of trickery is only just beginning to be recognised... That of Hieronymus Bosch, his contemporary and northern alter ego, the "devil-maker", is little known, if at all. The aim of this study is not to offer yet another reading of the Flemish masterpiece known today as the "Garden of Delights", but to explore the possibility of a deliberate inversion of the order of this triptych in order to blur its underlying message - heterodox and sacred for the initiated - under cover of an apparently more orthodox reading for the profane. This inversion reinforces Wilhelm Fraenger's earlier claim that the central panel of this triptych is a "Feast of Metamorphoses".
Mots clés
hieronymus
jeroen
bos
inverted
triptych
butterfly
little
tortoise
milk
thistle
masculine
feminine
egypt
Nile
source
hermes
pythagorean
alchemy
language
bird
mushroom
plant
hybrid
animal
hallucinogen
adamite
free
spirit
wilhelm
fraenger
millenary
kingdom
ritual
round
ballet
propeller
nebula
levogyre
spin
garden
earthly
delight
feast
metamorphosis
bosch
Domaines
Art et histoire de l'art
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