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Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights is one of the most enigmatic paintings in the history of western art. Apart from a brief description by an eyewitness in 1517, there are no contemporary records that tell us anything about the original commission of the painting, its placement, function or audience. Reindert Falkenburg now offers a detailed analysis of Bosch's eye- and mind boggling play with pictorial traditions. He argues that the painting was created towards the end of the fifteenth century as a conversation piece for an audience of Burgundian nobles. He suggests that the...

Against the background of the wide-spread "love" spirituality during the late Middle Ages, this book takes as its central theme the "taste" metaphor appearing in paintings featuring the Virgin and Child, belonging to the genre of the "Andachtsbild".