“The Garden of Earthly Delights” has been endlessly copied in the past five centuries, reproduced on tapestries and in ...

By Tim Wainwright Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights, 1490-1510 (Hieronymus Bosch/Wikimedia) November 24, 2014 ...

Hieronymus Bosch, “The Garden of Earthly Delights” (detail) (1480–1505), oil on panel (via Wikimedia commons) (click to enlarge) ...

But it’s just another detail in Hieronymus Bosch’s masterpiece, The Garden of Earthly Delights—which explains why it’s taken someone 500 years to try to play it.

Biographical details about Bosch’s life are famously scant, but we know that he was born Jeroen van Aken around 1450 and remained in Den Bosch until his death, in 1516.

A partial account of the attempt to wrangle paintings from institutions around the world, Pieter van Huystee’s Hieronymus Bosch, Touched by the Devil offers much institutional detail, a healthy ...

The Bosch-themed events, theatrical and otherwise, are spearheaded by a unique exhibition of his art at the Noordbrabants Museum, which stands just a few blocks away from the attached three-story ...

To see Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights in the flesh, you’d have to go to the Museo del Prado in Madrid. There it hangs, like a medieval Where’s Wally.

The otherworldly landscapes of Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch are tailor-made for the moving picture, because a panning shot in extreme close-up can pick up so many of his tiny, macabre details.