Source: El Prado Museum

We are in March and 365 days in Madrid we return to Prado like every month. To visit one of those 12 essential works.
The chosen work is The Garden of Earthly Delights, one of the best-known works of the Dutch painter Jeroen van Aken, known as Jheronimus Bosch, Hieronymus Bosch. Born in the mid-220th century into a family of artisan painters in the Dutch city of Hertogenbosch. It is a monumental work, a triptych painted in oil on board measuring 389 x XNUMX cm. Composed of a central table and two sides that can be closed on top of it.

It is a work of symbolic content, clearly moralizing, very much in the taste of the time. The king Felipe II He was a great admirer of the painter, acquired the triptych in 1593 and took this work to the Monastery of El Escorial.

Considered one of the most fascinating, mysterious and attractive works in the history of art, the painting is part of the permanent exhibition collections of the Prado Museum in Madrid, where it arrived following the Civil War delivered by the Delegated Board of Seizure, Protection and Conservation of the National Artistic Treasure, in 1936 and later recognized as a deposit by National Heritage.

Recently, controversy has arisen because rumors have spread about the alleged claims of National Heritage to take to the Museum of the Royal Collections which is expected to open in 2016, some paintings in the Prado, including The Garden of Earthly Delights, but it seems that common sense has prevailed and this wonder will continue in the Prado.

A abrazo.