87 : the garden of earthly delights

There is something about Hieronymus Bosch's painting The Garden of Earthly Delights, that has intrigued me since the minute I saw it. The painting is triptych (three panels) and features the biblical scenes of the joining of Adam and Eve (left), the garden (center) and hell (right)...not a subject matter that I would necessarily tend to gravitate towards.

The brightness, complexity, imagery, and immense amounts of symbolism are pretty remarkable...and many of the people depicted are in poses that are rather...interesting.

Like the strange bird headed creature in hell that eats the tormented and then defecates them into the transparent chamber pot on which he sits.

For an indepth analysis of the painting and it's symbolism, check out Wikipedia.

FYI: The painting was featured on The Simpsons as Bart's idea of hell.