Soror Amy brought this online interactive adventure the explores the painting “The Garden of Earthly Delights” by Jheronimus Bosch to our attention. The site states:
“This interactive documentary is an audio and video rich online experience for which you need to turn on your sound. Or better still: put on a headset.
“Wander through the painting. Zoom in on the Garden of Earthly Delights and discover the many stories hidden behind the images inside the painting. Click on the white text boxes to listen to and/or read the stories. Allow yourself to be guided by the sounds, the music – and the images of course! In this case we would strongly recommend you to wander around.
There’s also this guided tour:
“Experience The Garden of Earthly Delights in 15 steps.”
“Take the audiovisual tour of the Garden of Earthly Delights narrated by Redmond o’Hanlon. There is also a version for children available, with Nienke de La Rive Box as narrator (in Dutch).”
Feed your head!
https://tuinderlusten-jheronimusbosch.ntr.nl/en
Oddly enough, legendary art-punk bassist mike watt (MINUTEMEN, fIREHOSE, Iggy & The Stooges) released a “punk opera” in 2011 that revolved around this painting and produced a key to which figures which songs referred to which I include below
01 arrow-pierced-egg-man
02 beak-holding-letter-man
03 hammering-castle-bird-man
04 bird-in-the-helmet-man
05 belly-stabbed-man
06 stuffed-in-the-drum-man
07 baby-cradling-tree-man
08 hollowed-out-man
09 finger-pointing-man
10 own-horn-blowing-man
11 fryingpan-man
12 head-and-feet-only-man
13 shield-shouldered-man
14 cherry-head-lover-man
15 pinned-to-the-table-man
16 mouse-headed-man
17 antlered-man
18 confused-parts-man
19 bell-rung-man
20 boot-wearing-fish-man
21 thistle-headed-man
22 funnel-capped-man
23 blowing-it-out-both-ends-man
24 jug-footed-man
25 lute-and-dagger-man
26 mockery-robed-man
27 hill-man
28 hell-building-man
29 man-shitting-man
30 wheel-bound-man
