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65 cards, each an enlarged fragment from 'The Garden of Earthly Delights'. Lay them side by side and you reconstruct the full triptych. High-quality art print on sturdy board, packaged in a black box with gold stamping.
Bosch's masterwork up close, fragment by fragment.
Anyone who has seen Bosch's triptych at the Prado knows how difficult it is to take in all the details. You stand too far away, the room is too crowded, and you have no control over what you see and when. This set solves that.
65 cards, each an enlarged fragment from 'The Garden of Earthly Delights'. Together they form a reconstruction of the complete painting. Each card measures 89 x 129 mm, printed on sturdy art cardstock. Everything comes in a black box with gold stamping.
Each fragment shows a piece of Bosch's universe: fabulous creatures with multiple heads, naked figures inside oversized fruit, hybrid structures that resemble nothing else. The colour is rich. The print is sharp enough to see the brushstrokes.
You can lay the cards out as in the original: heaven on the left, earthly garden in the centre, hell on the right. Or you pick one card at random and study it on its own. Both ways work.
This is not a tarot or oracle deck. The cards have no numbers, no fixed meanings, no spreads. It is reproduction work, designed for studying a painting.
Yet some people use the images intuitively. The symbols are strong enough: desire, temptation, punishment, ecstasy. Bosch worked with archetypes long before Jung defined them.
Pick one random card each morning and place it in front of you. Look at it for a minute without thinking. Some images stay with you all day.
Jheronimus van Aken, born around 1450 in 's-Hertogenbosch, signed his work as Hieronymus Bosch. He painted religious commissions, but his visions went far beyond what the Church prescribed.
We know little about his life. His work speaks enough. 'The Garden of Earthly Delights', painted around 1490-1510, remains one of the most studied and least understood works in Western art history.
Can I use these cards as an oracle?
The cards are not designed as an oracle. They are reproductions of a painting. But the images are archetypal enough to work with intuitively, if you want to.
Do I need to lay the cards out in a specific order?
If you want to reconstruct the painting, you follow the composition of the triptych. Otherwise you can lay them in any order or pick one card at random. There is no system attached.
| Auteur | Hieronymus Bosch |
| Uitgeverij | OH Publishing |
| SKU | 1864-983 |
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