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Did you know that the most familiar artworks of the Renaissance The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch, Mona Lisa or La Gioconda by Leonardo da Vinci  and The Sistine Madonna by Raphael were not only painted in the same century, but in the same fifteen years of the XIV century, so we can say they were all created at the same time?

Among the modern filmmakers we could find a lot of admirers of Caravaggio, Goya or Rembrandt. However, no artist affected the cinematographic picture of the world so effectively as Hieronymus Bosch, a horror maker of the Middle Ages, an honorable professor of nightmares, the artist whose successors have not been able to fiddle his heritage away for 500 years. Somebody borrows his motives, the…

The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch could be considered as a cryptographic painting, which should be deciphered while eyeing. Saints and sinners, gods and monsters, books, notes, berries and buttocks are the letters and signs arranged in different ways to make different messages from XVI century. We have to be cautious and careful underestimating their effect; the set of letters…