Terrestrial Paradise (Bosch)

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Terrestrial Paradise

Artist	Hieronymus Bosch
Year	Between circa 1490 and circa 1516
Medium	Oil on oak wood
Dimensions	86.5 cm× 39.5 cm(34.1 in× 15.6 in)
Location	Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Terrestrial Paradise is a painting by Netherlandish artist Hieronymus Bosch, dating from around 1490. It is now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice, Italy.^[1]^[2] The painting depicts Terrestrial Paradise, where the remaining sins of the saved were washed away. The Fountain of Life stands on top of the hill.^[3]

This artwork is part of a series of four, the others are Ascent of the Blessed , Fall of the Damned into Hell and Hell .^[4]

References

↑ "VISIONS OF THE HEREAFTER | Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia". VISIONS OF THE HEREAFTER | Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
↑ Clark, T. J. (2021-04-01). "Aboutness". London Review of Books. Vol. 43, no. 7. ISSN 0260-9592 . Retrieved 2021-09-14.
↑ Kren, Emil and Marx, Daniel. "Paradise: Terrestrial Paradise". The Web Gallery of Art. Retrieved 21 February 2010.
↑ Clark, T.J. (2025). "Bosch's Anthropology". Those Passions: On Art and Politics. Thames and Hudson. pp. 23–39. ISBN 9780500025260.

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Single panels	List of paintings Adoration of the Magi (New York, c. 1475) Christ Child with a Walking Frame (1480s) St. Jerome at Prayer (c. 1482) Ecce Homo (Frankfurt, c. 1475–1485) Crucifixion with a Donor (c. 1480–1485) St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness (c. 1489) St. John the Evangelist on Patmos/Scenes from the Passion of Christ (c. 1489) Hell (after 1490) Cutting the Stone (c. 1494) Allegory of Gluttony and Lust (c. 1490–1500) Christ Carrying the Cross (Vienna, c. 1490–1500) Saint Christopher Carrying the Christ Child (c. 1490–1500) Ship of Fools (c. 1490–1500) Head of a Woman (c. 1500) The Wayfarer (c. 1500) The Conjurer (c. 1502; disputed) Christ Carrying the Cross (Madrid, c. 1505–1507) Christ Crowned with Thorns (London, c. 1510) Death and the Miser (c. 1490–1516) Flood Panels (c. 1514; attributed) The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things (c. 1500; disputed) The Temptation of St Anthony (Kansas City, c. 1500–1510) The Temptation of St Anthony (Madrid, c. 1505–1525; disputed)
Triptychs	The Last Judgment (Vienna, c. 1482) The Hermit Saints (c. 1493) The Crucifixion of Saint Wilgefortis (c. 1497) Adoration of the Magi (Madrid, c. 1485–1500) Triptych of the Temptation of St. Anthony (c. 1501) The Garden of Earthly Delights (c. 1490–1510) The Haywain Triptych (c. 1516)
Triptych fragments	Fall of the Damned into Hell (before 1490) Ascent of the Blessed (c. 1505–1515) The Last Judgment (Bruges, c. 1486; with workshop) Terrestrial Paradise (c. 1490–1516)
Works by followers	Adoration of the Magi (Philadelphia, c. 1499) Head of a Halberdier (1490s – after 1500) The Last Judgment (Munich, c. 1506–1508) Ecce Homo (Indianapolis, 1510s) The Temptation of St Anthony (Utrecht, c. 1525–1530) Christ Crowned with Thorns (El Escorial, 1530s) Christ Carrying the Cross (Ghent, c. 1510–1535) Concert in the Egg (c. 1561) Adoration of the Christ Child (c. 1568) Death of the Reprobate (unknown)
Formerly attributed	Two Male Heads (c. 1480–1485) The Marriage Feast at Cana (after 1550)
Drawings	The Owls' Nest (c. 1505–1516)
Museums	Jheronimus Bosch Art Center
Related	Hieronymus Bosch, Touched by the Devil (2015 documentary film) Jheronimus Bosch—Visions of Genius (2016 exhibition)

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Terrestrial Paradise (Bosch)

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