The gap between medieval and modern art might seem unbridgeable. But there is one painting that connects the two — and it’s as strange as you might expect.
Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights is more than a visual masterpiece. It holds the keys to some big questions:
How did art go from the Pietà to The Persistence of Memory?
How can there be beauty in horror?
What is hell like?
Above all, it’s a 500-year-old warning about sin…
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