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Caseiokey
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For your questions on riddles of #HieronymusBosch #latemedieval #earlyrenaissance #art #symbolism . Images can be enhanced for visibility. (Generally no content warning for 500+ years old works of art.)
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Caseiokey @caseiokey.bsky.social · 1h
The demonic Thistle-knight has wings of a female Duck.

*The Duck is an ambiguous (i.e. sexual) symbol.
*Further stupidity
*and alcoholism.
*In some paintings it’s wordplay with End (Duck is Eend/End in Dutch).
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Caseiokey @caseiokey.bsky.social · 1d
This seems the only relevant (simple) drawing of a big fruit by Hieronymus Bosch.

NB: Bosch often plays with expressions about a fruit SKIN.
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Caseiokey @caseiokey.bsky.social · 1d
I did not check the (black & white) drawings.
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Caseiokey @caseiokey.bsky.social · 1d
I collected most of Bosch’s big fruits for you.
*The first collage is from the Garden of Earthly Delights.
*The second is from several works!

NB, the painter often made fantasy constructs.
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Caseiokey @caseiokey.bsky.social · 1d
Yes, always happy to hear more options!
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Caseiokey @caseiokey.bsky.social · 1d
Enjoy!
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Caseiokey @caseiokey.bsky.social · 1d
It can be a different fruit.
*The joke was about the little critter inside… ;-)

*One opinion: the large fruit may be a mandrake apple and the man with the sword could refer to the uprooting.

*I haven’t found any evidence yet that Bosch could have seen drawings of, or real American plants & fruits.
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Caseiokey @caseiokey.bsky.social · 1d
“Wait till he takes a bite of this fully biological Apple…
Some extra Proteins!”
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Caseiokey @caseiokey.bsky.social · 1d
Bosch painted in the Love Garden’s background a scene as mentioned by Matthew 1:25 a.o.:
“And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judæa, and from beyond Jordan.”

Opposite to the Triumphant Jerusalem Entry scene.
Detail of the Center panel of the Garden of Earthly Delights, ca.1500AD. By Hieronymus Bosch. At the Prado museum in Madrid. Idem
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Caseiokey @caseiokey.bsky.social · 1d
Some rock forms in the back of the Garden in Eden have strange details:
*my Purple arrows point to objects with meaning, like a big egg or an oven or something
*Blue point to a high structure with openings;
*Green seem big fruits,
echoing the outer wings;
*Red links to Satan:
crescent & mill stones.
Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden triptych ca.1500AD. At the Prado museum. I added arrows in 4 colors.
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Caseiokey @caseiokey.bsky.social · 1d
The hole in his trousers may just mean that Pedlar is a poor man.
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Caseiokey @caseiokey.bsky.social · 2d
Millers had a bad rep:
as thiefs, f.i. giving less flour back.
So the presence of mills and water mills in Afterlife links to the millers’ sins.
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Caseiokey @caseiokey.bsky.social · 2d
Alzheimer's disease and such symptoms were known as “kindsheid” [infancy] in Dutch.
Alcoholism may look similar.
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Caseiokey @caseiokey.bsky.social · 2d
“This cafe has opened very recently!”
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Caseiokey @caseiokey.bsky.social · 2d
That glitch is present on all available gigapixel images.
Somebody must have touched the camera stand.
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Caseiokey @caseiokey.bsky.social · 2d
“All sweat and no cookie!”
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Caseiokey @caseiokey.bsky.social · 2d
“Yahoo, WE made it!”
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Caseiokey @caseiokey.bsky.social · 3d
This
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Caseiokey @caseiokey.bsky.social · 3d
Hieronymus Bosch and his contemporaries knew that God allowed Satan to afflict people with adversity in order to test them.
God allows devils to attack the saints, Augustine explains,
“so that they may grow in grace through temptation".
(Civitate Dei, XX.8)

<Walter Bosing, p.96.
Inside of The Temptation of St.Anthony triptych - Hieronymus Bosch, ca.1500AD. At MNAA museum, Lisbon.
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Caseiokey @caseiokey.bsky.social · 4d
Ouch- That hurts!
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Caseiokey @caseiokey.bsky.social · 4d
Two versions of a Griffin on the same panel.
Done by different artists of the Bosch studio?
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Caseiokey @caseiokey.bsky.social · 5d
Greyish-blue is the color of deceit.
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Caseiokey @caseiokey.bsky.social · 5d
These beggars somehow always bring the Holy family in my mind.
If so, then it’s another sacrilegious scene by Bosch.
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Caseiokey @caseiokey.bsky.social · 5d
The Duck-Boat on Bosch’s Anthony work has a sail with a dead STINGRAY-
Why?
*It’s a scaleless, non-pure fish
*it has a human expression
*fabricated Jenny Hanivers were called Little dragon
*tail = demonic
*a.o. in the city Den Bosch young adult “ray cutters” dealt harsh w. violators of social rules.
Detail of the center panel of the Temptation of St.Anthony triptych - Hieronymus Bosch. Ca.1500AD. At the MNAA museum Lisbon. At RIGHT Jenny Haniver manipulated mummy, from the private natuurmuseum Klaas Nanninga, Groningen.
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Caseiokey @caseiokey.bsky.social · 5d
“I think that the fruit
turns them bonkers!”
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