[New post] Can Food Poisoning Create Images of Demons?
Suzy Valtsioti posted: " The middle ages were riddled with plagues, famine, climate change and poisonous food...Could the Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch be a result of poisoning? Read: How Bosch Experienced his Own Kind of Hell "Bosch was the inventor of the modern"
The middle ages were riddled with plagues, famine, climate change and poisonous food...Could the Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch be a result of poisoning?
"Bosch was the inventor of the modern Western imagining of the demonic while transcending that tradition — all because of bad weather and moldy bread. ..."
..."In our own years of pandemic and climate change, in my book Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology, I return to another segment of "The Garden of Earthly Delights," describing what looks like, if anything, a "fiery cityscape, collapsed and burning skyscrapers, twisted steel I-beams and crumbling concrete, the haze of nuclear fallout across the skyline of a once-mighty and modern metropolis." Whether Bosch is in hell or we are remains as unanswered as the origins of his strange and terrible visions. "
Hieronymus Bosch, "The Garden of Earthly Delights" (circa 1480–1490) oil on panel, 153.2 x 86.6 inches, located in Madrid, Museo del Prado (image courtesy Wikimedia Commons)
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