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?

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How Bosch Experienced his Own Kind of Hell

"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. "

from Hyperallergic : How Bosch Experienced his Own Kind of Hell By ed simon

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)