Eyck and Bosch

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 …

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