Couple in amniotic bubble (The Garden of Earthly Delights detail)
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The amniotic bubble[1] is a detail from the The Garden of Earthly Delights tryptich by Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch. It is a detail from the central "Earth" panel.
It depicts a nude man and nude woman frolicing within a transparent bubble. The figures' arms are entwined, while the female's head bends towards the male's attentive mouth.
Some historians have stated that what appear to be cracks in the bubble, may forecast the fragility of joyful passion.
But as Paul Rumsey notes, the lines on the surface of the bubble are curved like veins, giving it the appearance of an amniotic sac, contradicting the cracks and 'fragility of love'-thesis.
- "Perhaps, as it comes from a flower, and has part of the flower inside it, it should be seen as organic, a mixture of the vegetable (flower / fruit) and the animal (womb) with the human figures like the seeds, - human erotism projected onto the cycles and forms of nature, and vice versa." (Rumsey, 2011)
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