Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Title: Garden of Earthly Delights, detail: Pig wearing Nun's Habit
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  • Description: A nude man is accosted by a sow that attempts to seduce him into signing a legal document. The sow wear's a nun's headcover and thus also serves as a condemnation of clerical corruption, an issue that many of Bosch's contemporaries also addressed in their work.
  • Source: Wikimedia Commons
  • Rights: Public Domain
  • Subject (See Also): Ecclesiastical Reform Headdresses Nuns Satire
  • Geographic Area: Low Countries
  • Century: 15
  • Date: ca. 1490-1510
  • Related Work: Garden of Earthly Delights See a detailed view of all three panels from the Prado website: http://www.museodelprado.es/imagen/alta_resolucion/P02823.jpg See closeup views of details from Wikimedia Commons:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Garden_of_Earthly_Delights
  • Current Location: Madrid, Museo del Prado, P02823
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  • Artistic Type (Category): Digital images; Paintings
  • Artistic Type (Material/Technique): Panel; Oil
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