Description
Bird monster with helmet - contract. From the tryptich 'The Garden of the Lustre', Prado, Madrid. The helmet wearing bird monster carries the spring box and the ink barrel in which one nun, transformed into a pig, dips her pen. A chopped foot dangles on his horned helmet as a hint of the cruel bib fines you can expect in hell. The pig, actually a complaint against the dededededededefication of monastery life, seduces the man sitting next to him and seems to set up a contract. Maybe the man just selling his soul? Material: Resin (porcelain-like resin) handmade and hand-painted. Heronymus Bosch (1450-1516) the garden of the strip. Hieronymus Bosch presents the mortal viewer a mirror which, from the earthly paradise, is a cruel inferno for the immortal life on earth. The painting on the closed wings, completely in grey tones, represents the creators...
