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Visions of the Hereafter
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One object, one catalogue entry: the Gallerie dell'Accademia holds the four panels as Cat. 182; 184 and they are sold whole. Four sheets, one edition - $510 on 16x32 sheets, $1,290 on 30x60 - and the printed images hang level within 0%.
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At the far right a tunnel of light opens in the dark, ring inside ring, and at its end a small bright door. Angels lift the naked souls toward it. To the left a figure in red stands with a naked man in a green garden; further left a man sits on a burning shore, head in hand, a green demon beside him, and at the edge bodies fall through the night. Hieronymus Bosch painted the four about 1505 to 1515. They come from Cardinal Domenico Grimani's collection, and the Gallerie dell'Accademia has hung them since 2010. The Gallery reads four gradations of the hereafter, a garden of the sinless elect, a sulphurous Hell, and between them the tunnel of the blessed and the cliff of the damned, and names two sources: the twelfth-century Vision of Tundale, and Dante's Commedia, put into Dutch at 's-Hertogenbosch in 1484. The door stays small.
The four panels are within 2% of one aspect (0.434–0.442), so on any one sheet all four are height-limited and hang level to a fraction of a percent. Order is the plate's and the Gallery's 2011 hang as reported: Fall of the Damned, Hell, then Terrestrial Paradise, Ascent of the Blessed.
| Held by | Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice · Cat. 182; 184 the museum’s record |
|---|---|
| Source file | Wikimedia Commons · Poliptyk Hieronima Bocha Visions of the Hereafter.JPG |
| Licence | Public domain |
| Panel · fall of the damned | Fall of the Damned — 8,443 × 19,293 px |
| Panel · hell | Hell — 8,401 × 19,307 px |
| Panel · terrestrial paradise | Terrestrial Paradise — 8,341 × 19,276 px |
| Panel · ascent of the blessed | Ascent of the Blessed — 8,314 × 19,276 px |
| Chain | Each panel taken from the source file above and cut to its own painted field; held as 4 print masters. |
Printed on demand as one edition. The whole image is printed on every sheet — never cropped to fit — so each panel carries an archival margin.