Great Paintings OF All Time

Nude Against the Light or Backlit Nude (French: Nu à contre-jour) is an oil painting by the French Post-Impressionist painter Pierre Bonnard. Created in 1908, it is now in the collection of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels.The work depicts the artist's naked model and partner Marthe de Mėrigny applying eau de Cologne after a bath in a tub. She is standing silhouetted against the light from the windows which fills the room with bright warm shadowless light and colour. The bather is reflected in a mirror, a characteristic feature of Bonnard's paintings.

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The Garden of Earthly Delights is the modern title given to a triptych oil painting on oak panel painted by the Early Netherlandish master Hieronymus Bosch, between 1490 and 1510, when Bosch was between 40 and 60 years old. It has been housed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid since the year 1939. Twentieth-century art historians are divided as to whether the triptych's central panel is a moral warning or a panorama of paradise lost.

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