* Very beautiful painting by artist Hieronymus Bosch The painting The Garden of Delights is the title traditionally given to a triptych by the Southern Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. This section is the middle section of the triptych, with the middle panel seamlessly joining the left panel. The landscape is almost the same and contains the same strange rock formations and exotic flora and fauna. In details, however, the middle panel is completely different; for instance, it contains impossible elements, such as a plant growing out of an egg, man-sized fruits, flying fish and fabulous animals, such as a griffin, which the painter incidentally borrowed from an engraving by Martin Schongauer. The painter here seems to be turning God's creation upside down.[8] Moreover, it is teeming with people, who are depicted naked. Noticeably missing are children and old people. The people also include mythical figures such as hairy savages, mermaids and sea knights. Hairy savages were uncultivated, godless types in the art and literature of Bosch's time, associated with uninhibited sexuality. The painter depicts them as women, by which he thus seems to have wanted to depict sexually uninhibited women. The people also include some negroid women. These also had a negative meaning in the Middle Ages and were associated with evil, while the mermaid in Bosch's tide
