The Garden of Earthly Delights
by:
Robert Dodds (author)
It is 1490. Northern Europe is in the grip of sweeping plagues and religious inquisitions, and in daily terror of the Day of Judgement. In the town of Den Bosch, the artist Jerome (Hieronymus Bosch) paints his visionary denunciation of sin and folly, ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’, while his...
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It is 1490. Northern Europe is in the grip of sweeping plagues and religious inquisitions, and in daily terror of the Day of Judgement. In the town of Den Bosch, the artist Jerome (Hieronymus Bosch) paints his visionary denunciation of sin and folly, ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’, while his neglected wife Aleyt strays into sin herself. But Jerome is not immune from the
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Format: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B00QRVYXZO
Pages no: 395
Edition language: English
I really don’t know what to say about this book as I found it difficult to connect with the story and the characters.I think the history had been well written and researched, but I found the writing to ‘heavy’. Please don’t ask what I mean by that, I don’t really know.It’s not often I get a book tha...