1490_Paradise_Bosch.txt http://www.artbible.info/art/large/306.html Jheronimus Bosch ca. 1450 – 1516 Garden of Earthly Delight - Paradise oil on panel (220 × 97 cm) — 1480/90, or ca. 1500 Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid Jheronimus Bosch biography This work is linked to Genesis 2:25 "And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed." Left wing of the triptych Garden of Earthly Delight. Many animals and birds appear to be living in peaceful co-existence. Quite a number of the animals are African, like the elephant and the giraffe. The central figure is God, who has just created Eve out of one of Adam's ribs.