As you might know, Hieronymus Bosch painted this center panel of a triptych in 1504. The triptych illustrates the history of the world and progression of sin. When you looka at the center panel, The Garden of Earthly Delights is depicted here. It illustrates a world deeply engaged in sinful pleasures. But, someone made a mistake here! In an attempt to hide another famous icon of the 1500’s, the mistake took place. Typical of the sort of challenge we see, what is that mistake I was talking about? Can you spot it? Looking forward to hear your answers! Click on the image for larger verison.
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There are no reproductive organs
“There are no reproductive organs”
Yeah! What’s up with that? HAha!
Is it the fish in the sky at the top right?
No answer yet?
The guy lying down besides the owl has no head just a blue sphere
if you look there are tree black figures that have no features at all, kind of like shadows two have apples on their heads the one in the middle has a shadow of an apple but no apple. the figures are placed bottom of picture #1 on the left #2 on the right #3 is in the middle just above the the guy kissing the bird, sitting in the blue whatever that is
hey, gewg, are you a reproductive organ?
Bottom right corner is a man dressed.. the rest of the other people are naked.
http://www.fictionwise.com/knight/bosch.garden.esau2.jpg
I would like to live there
ew you were looking
everyone is naked!
The black figures have features, they’re just harder to see
the fish is as big as people, that cant be right!
Comming from a book illustration background, Bosch didn’t quite get the perspective right compared to other painters (mainly due to habit or choice, than lack of skill, I think). They did this because distorting the perspective made it easier to fit a complex scene into a small place.
Not sure if this is the right answer, though. But a good renaissance painter sure say so!
I think it represents the map of the world (at 1500 amyway) :) Ther is the mistake: map it is not what they where thinking at that time (take a look at India on the right side of the picture)
are u sure there’s a mistake for this because u dont know if the painter meant on doin this lol!!i only saw the head replaced wit a blue sphere
I think I spoted the mistake here .. they have put in the hindu god of Ganesh in and no others !!
Is the man in thr lower right hand corner Martin Luther?
its the big a in red blood
i see an eyeball at the lower left hand corner made up of the crystal ball/bubble thing and the red feathery thing and the lacy thing (I have no idea)
I can see a big giant A…but it has no line across so it’s more like an ^ i can also see two shaded people all in black and a person with a giant clam on there back…
there are flying people!?
Is it that red arrow that points up which is placed sum where down the middle sorta. it looks like an accident
i agree with Dewi…..there’s one dressed man, and the rest of the people are naked. Good job noticin that Dewi
The clothed figure in the right hand corner is the madonna in the mona lisa. The mistake is that the artist has her looking the wrong way.
there is a person on the lower right hand corner with clothing! none of the others have any clothing on what so ever! i think it’s a man, but it’s hard to tell!
someones getting eaten by a clam?! i dont know if anybody else has noticed that but it is really bizarre, well so is evrything else in this picture!
Its the big A thats covering up the people
WTF, IS THAT A FISH IN HTE SKY!!!
there is a random arm sticking out of the blue thing in the bottom center.
I’ve compared it with the version without the mistake (or at least what I think is the version without the mistake), and I can’t find any differences, exept that some object wich are orange in the other one are red in this one, and that might just be due to disscoloration.
i agree theres is a dressed man whom is martin luther -the famous icon of the 1500’s-
Does it relate to the serpent by the tree of knowledge between good and evil?
It’s hard to see the detail, except for a human or human like head.
Is it a clue to mention that the painting was created about 1504, while the Reformation began Oct 31 1517?
eve is picking the apple from the tree in the garden of eden
I’ll come out with it:
The Copus Christi or “body of Christ” is hidden in the picture.
The structures that represent the
stigmata of Christ’s hands are not in the correct position
The procession of people around the circle are either a crown of thorns or a halo, assuming that isn’t what the round body of water is. That it also looks like a communion wafer is probably not a coincidence.
By the time this picture was drawn, it was still believed that the Earth is FLAT, whereas in the picture the Earth is shown as spherical.
I believe lisalotte had the right answer. The Corpus Christi is hidden, it is made up from the volume of water, with the legs at the top of the picture and the head as the pool at the centre. However, the stigmata are not positioned in the wrong place as the are not stigmata, simply divine wounds: the structures at the ‘hands’ and ‘feet’ are stigmata wounds, the central structure is believed to be symbolic of the spear wound inflicted when Jesus was emplaced on the crucifix.
I do try my best to educate the readers of this website, you may realise I post fairly often…
Thank you, Bob B.
As for the alleged sexual act, it isn’t in this painting. I can see why you would think it was – the painting is rather sensual (Garden of Earthly Delights no less)You need to look closely to see the subtext.
Only William Hogarth come to mind as a painter taking a more conservative stand about societal norms than the usual populace.
there is a fish flying in the in the sky.
Just above the Giant Strawberry on the bottom right, thers some one getting flower shoved up their ass
It’s Monalisa
there is a person to the left of the painting about 2/3 of the way up who is standing on their head (or whatever). that person only has one leg
Fat lady, 6:00.
The blue orb in the water looks striking similar to a soccer ball…
The famous icon being cathedral square in Moscow? Not very good to paint that into a picture sin :)
Isn’t everything in this picture just a bit…er…’wrong’?
The rivers meeting look like they were going to form a pentagram.
My take, anyway.
JKC
The new artist painted a red TP over a few people in an effort to cover the identity. I dont think in the 1500s we new Indians existed.
guys, i really am not sure on the ” hidden ” message…i believe it very well ma be Biblical…but some of u are wrong.there are four black figures in the pic…two in the center,can only see the head.
Maybe mistake is a red letter V upside-down ?