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Marina Warner: Ovid in America: Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights

Entry added:June 27th, 2002 | Posted in Lectures & Talks

June 2002, in association with Tate Britain

Marina Warner

Award winning writer and critic Marina Warner discusses the image of paradise in Hieronymous Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights. She examines the painting int he light of the first encounter with the Americas and the earliest ethonographical account, Ramon Pane’s Account of the Antiquities of the Indians. The author of numerous acclaimed works on myth, symbolism and fairy tales, including Monuments and Maidensand No Go the Bogeyman, Marina Warner has also given the Reith Lectures (1994), is Visiting Professor at Birkbeck College, and is a member of the London Consortium Visiting Faculty.