The Garden of Earthly Delights is the modern title given to a five-panel triptych by the Early Netherlandish master Hieronymus Bosch, between 1490 and 1510, when Bosch was between 40 and 60 years old.
Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, oil on oak panels, 205.5 cm × 384.9 cm (81 in × 152 in), Museo del Prado, Madrid
The exterior panels show the world during creation, probably on the Third Day, after the addition of plant life but before the appearance of animals and humans.
Left panel: The Garden of Eden
Center panel: The Garden of Earthly Delights
The Last Judgment is a triptych by the Early Netherlandish artist Hieronymus Bosch, created after 1482.
The Garden of Earthly Delights
…as to whether the triptych's central panel is a moral warning or a panorama of the paradise lost. He painted three large triptychs (the others are The Last Judgment of c. 1482 and The Haywain Triptych of c. 1516) that can be read from left to right and in which each panel was essential to the meaning of the whole…
The Last Judgment (lower part missing)
The closed triptych
Detail of the left panel
The central Last Judgement (upper and lower parts missing)