Rick Steves' Europe
Art Bites 158: Hieronymus Bosch and "The Garden of Earthly Delights"
Bosch’s three-paneled masterpiece takes you on a wild ride from a tranquil Garden of Eden creation scene to a
Bosch’s three-paneled masterpiece takes you on a wild ride from a tranquil Garden of Eden creation scene to a
Northern artists gave the traditional medieval altarpiece a new level of sophistication. Van der Weyden’s exquisitely detailed Last Judgment
Gothic churches were taller and brighter than the earlier Romanesque. They had a skeleton of support — columns, buttresses, and pointed
Raphael combined the grace of Leonardo, the power of Michelangelo, and the humanist spirit of the age. The master of
Michelangelo, another multi-talented “Renaissance man” was a world-class sculptor, painter, and architect. He sculpted “David” and the “Pietà,” painted the