This essay is referring to Jan van Eyck Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride and Hieonymous Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights. The similarity that the two artist works have in common is the secular commission for private use. Scholars have proposed that such a commission, in combination with the central themes of marriage, sex, and procreation, points to a wedding celebration. According to our textbook, this is the only similarity between the two paintings. In the …showed first 75 words of 537 total…

…showed last 75 words of 537 total…was associated with early medicines. Another is that it may have been related to Paracelsus, the treatments that were developed based on his theories which were also referred to as chymical medicines. He knew that some of these could be toxic to humans so he concentrated on issues of appropriate dose and safe formulation. In Bosch’s triptych may allude to alchemical equipment that might produce a medicine to cure mankind of all its ills.