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Garden of Earthly Delights
Artist / Origin Hieronymus Bosch (Netherlandish, ca. 1450–1516)
Region: Europe
Date: ca. 1500–1505
Period: 1400 CE – 1800 CE
Material: Oil on wood panel
Medium: Painting
Dimensions: (Central Panel) H: 86 5/8 in. (220 cm.), W: 79 ¾ in. (195 cm.); (Side Panels) H: 86 5/8 in. (220 cm.), W: 38 1/8 in. (97 cm.) (each)
Location: Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
Credit: Courtesy of Art Resource, NY/Photo by Erich Lessing
The Jungle
Artist / Origin: Wifredo Lam (Cuban, 1902–1982)
Region: Mesoamerica, Central America, and the Caribbean
Date: 1943
Period: 1900 CE – 2010 CE
Material: Gouache on paper mounted on canvas
Medium: Painting
Dimensions: H: 8 ft. (24 m.), W: 7 ½ ft. (2.3 m.)
Location: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Credit: © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris/Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by Scala/Art Resource, NY
When twentieth-century Cuban artist Wifredo Lam lived in Europe, he saw Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights and was said to have been fascinated by it. Struck by the poor treatment of Afro-Cubans in his homeland, Lam painted his monumental work, The Jungle, shortly after he returned to Cuba. A comparison of Garden of Earthly Delights and The Jungle points to the range of meaning that hybrid forms and fantastic landscapes can embody and express.