eprintid: 6840 rev_number: 17 eprint_status: archive userid: 4 dir: disk0/00/00/68/40 datestamp: 2020-05-14 10:16:09 lastmod: 2020-05-25 15:44:07 status_changed: 2020-05-14 10:16:09 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Michael, Meinhard title: The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch as a dream to be deciphered subjects: ddc-750 divisions: i-9 cterms_swd: Bosch, Hieronymus / Garten der Lüste cterms_swd: Guilelmus / Epistola ad fratres de Monte-Dei cterms_swd: Traum abstract: The text presented here is an English version of my essay ‚Der Garten der Lüste als Traum – der zu entschlüsseln ist‘, Art-Dok Heidelberg 2017, with references also to later publications and with further additions. It is an extended version of the relevant chapter of the author’s study: ‘Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights. The Senses and the Soul in Dream and Awakening’ (2018). The proposition is that Jheronimus or Hieronymus Bosch painted the Garden of Earthly Delights as a sensual dream of a concrete figure which is shown in the picture itself. The dream also contains a vision and, with that, an appeal to the dreamer herself. The foreground figure in the cave is understood to be the woman who has had the dream. Using a slightly varied topos from illuminations in medieval manuscripts both, the dreamer and the content of the dream, appear simultaneously in the same picture. Subsequently, further details are discussed of significance to the relationship between dream and dreamer. It is shown how the depicted dream modifies the convention of the representations of dreams, emphasising its originality – the telling of the dream in the moment of awakening. It is assumed that the dreamer experienced a ‘mixed dream’, combining fantastic and seductive details with ‘a code for moral conduct’. Another factor is that the nature of this ‘recognition dream’ is metaphorical and requires interpretation. The Garden of Earthly Delight’s mystery then becomes accessible. It is suggested that a passage from William of St. Thierry’s Golden Epistle could serve to reveal an understanding of the Garden of Earthly Delights. The last part of the essay outlines how the awakening from the dream draws the painting together rhetorically as well as allegorically. date: 2020 id_scheme: DOI id_number: 10.11588/artdok.00006840 ppn_swb: 1698596758 own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-artdok-68409 language: eng vgwort_code: 18c3c2aea35a432eaebab5453d6a885d bibsort: MICHAELMEITHEGARDENO2020 full_text_status: public themen: T11 themen: T25 themen: T14 oa_type: gold laender: LBe citation: Michael, Meinhard (2020) The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch as a dream to be deciphered. document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/6840/1/Michael_The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights_by_Hieronymus_Bosch_as_a_dream_to_be_deciphered_2020.pdf