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August 9, 2010

Aug. 9, 1516

A funeral mass for the popular artist Hieronymus Bosch was held on August 9, 1516. His best known work is the triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights, and one panel of this, The Garden of Eden, has got a cat in it. A cat with a mouse in its mouth. No doubt Eden did not have to worry about rodents in the granary, and this detail Bosch put in is part of the splendor of Eden. We can see his genius too, in the fact the cat tail and the mouse tail are quite similar. This was painted around 1500 Anno Domini.
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