“Class is in session this summer! We’re partnering with the Brooklyn Institute of Social Research to offer the second annual Sips & Scholars series, free lectures set in bars, parks, cafes, and restaurants all over Brooklyn. This session, entitled "On Earthly Delights: Theorizing Paradise with Hieronymus Bosch" will be led by Rebecca Ariel Porte.
What does Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights have to tell us about the meaning of paradise on earth in a time when "the old is dying and the new cannot be born"? Concentrating on different details in the late medieval painting's three panels--Eden, the Garden of Delights, and Hell on Earth--this lecture explores how Bosch's triptych captures the experience of living past the promised end of the world and asks why imagination turns to the collective dream house of paradise when it seems impossible to build in reality.
Food and refreshments will be available! Please RSVP in advance. “