Dante
Dante's Inferno and The Garden of Earthly DelightsThe Garden of Earthly Delights painted by Hieronymus Bosch, depicts many vivid fictional scenes in triptych style. The right wing of the triptych depicts Hell and the causes of man's downfall, which Dante wrote about in the Inferno. Dante tries to convey to all humanity the consequences of human actions and the levels of hell that he believes exist for different levels of sins. Dante divides Hell up into ten different circles, and there is an upper and a lower level of Hell. Dante and Bosch have similar views on the evil within people and this evil is represented in their works, whether it transpires in a painting or in a book. This evil is evident in the right wing of The Garden of Earthy Delights, which can be used to portray scenes from almost all of Dante's circles of Hell. Fire is seen in much of the painting, which can be symbolic of death. Fire is one of the only elements man can create so fire can also be seen as a symbol of mortality. Virgil said, "I come to lead you to the other shore, into eternal darkness, ice, and fire." (Canto III: line 87) This quote shows the connection of fire and Hell. Fire can also be representative of the Holy Spirit and this relates to Da
" (XII: 104-105) There is a woman at the bottom right of the painting that is being held by a kangaroo type creature. One of the sinners in the Inferno, an Impersonator, kept craving water. Dante's Inferno can be seen as a guide for people to live by so that they do not end up in Hell like the sinners in his book. He said, "O you who bear no punishment at all (I can't think why) within this world of sorrow, he said to us, pause here and look upon the misery of one Master Adamo: in life I had all that I could desire, and now, alas, I crave a drop of water. Dante said, "In each of his three mouths he crunched a sinner, with teeth like those that rake hemp and flax, keeping three sinners constantly in pain; the one in front- the biting he endured was nothing like the clawing that he took: sometimes his back was raked clean of its skin. At the bottom left side of the painting is a man about to be eaten by a termite who has a game table on his head. Dante and Bosch feel that lust corrupts man and man's corruption is evident is his actions. In the Inferno this is represented by Lucifer eating the three worst sinners, Judas Iscariot, Brutus, and Cassius, all who betrayed their benefactors. These figures may be representative of Dante's belief in God and the Church which are two themes in the Inferno. This could be symbolic of crimes against one's country. " (XXXIV: 55-60) Judas was being punished for betraying Christ. nte who ties religion into the Inferno. Dante feels that the ultimate sin is one against God and the Church and consequently, Lucifer instates the ultimate punishment. Some of the ideas painted by Bosch are vague and can be analyzed in many ways.
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