Mendoza's Third Trip to the Yale Museum once more

 Leesandra Mendoza

 The Museum Experience

Professor Nevins 

Third Trip Yale Art Gallery

    My third trip takes me back to the Yale Art Gallery. I had a bit time to kill one Tuesday after my class was cancelled so I took it as an opportunity to go to the museum. I got lost in walking around that this time I did not get as many photos as I wanted. The extra few I took are at the end of the post, but the one I want to talk about is the one right next to me. 

 

Hieronymus Bosch (1450–1516)

An Allegory of Intemperance

Oil on panel (ca. 1495–1500)

For this piece I am focusing on a visual analysis of the piece.  

  Hieronymus Bosch painting An Allegory of Intemperance (also known as Allegory of Gluttony and Lust) is one piece of a triptych, specifically the left bottom wing. In this section of the painting the medium used seemed to be paint on wood. When looking at the piece in person one can see how paint goes into the groves of the wood unlike typical linen canvas which would not produce that type of background texture. There are eight figures within this piece, six who are in water and two outside of the water. There are three men who are behind a barrel who seems to be pushing it through the water who seem to be a mixed of unclothed and clothed with the person closest to the viewer seeming to be unclothed to and the person in the middle seems to still have the top part of his clothes on, the last person hidden from view expect nose up. The next person in the water is the man on the barrel itself. He is the only fully clothed person in the water and also the only person not necessarily in the water itself. He is holding a branch with leaves in his left arm, blowing a long trumpet with the help of his other arm, and adorning some sort of hat on his head. The last person near the barrel also seems not to be clothed except for the hat on his head as he is catching a liquid pouring out of the barrel into what looks like a metal bowl. The final person in the water seems to be swimming ashore. He also seems to be naked with an item on his head either a hat or a kind of plate. The two people outside of the water are in a pink tented area. The one in the green garment seems to be a man with short brown hair and sharper features to the face. He is holding a bowl or cup in one hand as the other is placed on the table. The woman next to him is wearing a dark colored garment with white headgear. She is being shown close to the man grabbing the arm closest to her. Both looking at each other with almost a want and interest. The tent itself appears to have a table on the inside with a glass cup shaped figure and another table with what seems like a pitcher half hidden. A pole appears to be extending from the tent and on the top of it seems to be a type of coat of arms symbol. In the foreground of the painting we see clothes scattered in the tree, on the ground, and near the front of the tent. The items scattered around consist of hats, belts, shoes, and other bodily garments. The painting itself uses a of white, pink, yellows, and greens within it.

  

Here are some other piece I got to see on my second trip: