Ascent of the Blessed

Ascent of the Blessed

Artist	Hieronymus Bosch
Year	after 1490

Ascent of the Blessed is a Hieronymus Bosch painting made after 1490. It is in the Palazzo Ducale, in Venice, Italy.

This painting is part of a polyptych of four panels entitled Visions of the Hereafter. The others are Terrestrial Paradise, Fall of the Damned into Hell and Hell.

Near-death experience researcher Sam Parnia wrote that the painting resembles imagery typically associated with an NDE, in particular angels escorting people down a tunnel of white light. He had a subject in particular write to him specifically referencing the painting, saying that it very much resembled what he saw during his NDE. It is unknown if Bosch himself ever experienced an NDE or had someone relate to him such an experience.^[1]

References

^ Parnia, Sam; Young, Josh (March 4, 2014). Erasing Death. HarperOne. pp. 149–150. ISBN 978-0062080615.

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Single panels	List of paintings Adoration of the Magi (New York, c. 1475) Christ Child with a Walking Frame (1480s) St. Jerome at Prayer (c. 1482) Ecce Homo (Frankfurt, c. 1475–1485) Crucifixion with a Donor (c. 1480–1485) St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness (c. 1489) St. John the Evangelist on Patmos/Scenes from the Passion of Christ (c. 1489) Hell (after 1490) Cutting the Stone (c. 1494) Allegory of Gluttony and Lust (c. 1490–1500) Christ Carrying the Cross (Vienna, c. 1490–1500) Saint Christopher Carrying the Christ Child (c. 1490–1500) Ship of Fools (c. 1490–1500) Head of a Woman (c. 1500) The Wayfarer (c. 1500) The Conjurer (c. 1502; disputed) Christ Carrying the Cross (Madrid, c. 1505–1507) Christ Crowned with Thorns (London, c. 1510) Death and the Miser (c. 1490–1516) Flood Panels (c. 1514; attributed) The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things (c. 1500; disputed) The Temptation of St Anthony (Kansas City, c. 1500–1510) The Temptation of St Anthony (Madrid, c. 1505–1525; disputed)
Triptychs	The Last Judgment (Vienna, c. 1482) The Hermit Saints (c. 1493) The Crucifixion of Saint Wilgefortis (c. 1497) Adoration of the Magi (Madrid, c. 1485–1500) Triptych of the Temptation of St. Anthony (c. 1501) The Garden of Earthly Delights (c. 1490–1510) The Haywain Triptych (c. 1516)
Triptych fragments	Fall of the Damned into Hell (before 1490) Ascent of the Blessed (c. 1505–1515) The Last Judgment (Bruges, c. 1486; with workshop) Terrestrial Paradise (c. 1490–1516)
Works by followers	Adoration of the Magi (Philadelphia, c. 1499) Head of a Halberdier (1490s – after 1500) The Last Judgment (Munich, c. 1506–1508) Paradise and Hell (c. 1510) Ecce Homo (Indianapolis, 1510s) The Temptation of St Anthony (Utrecht, c. 1525–1530) Christ Crowned with Thorns (El Escorial, 1530s) Christ Carrying the Cross (Ghent, c. 1510–1535) Concert in the Egg (c. 1561) Adoration of the Christ Child (c. 1568) Death of the Reprobate
Formerly attributed	Two Male Heads (c. 1480–1485) The Marriage Feast at Cana (after 1550)
Drawings	The Owls' Nest (c. 1505–1516)
Related	Hieronymus Bosch, Touched by the Devil (2015 documentary film) Jheronimus Bosch—Visions of Genius (2016 exhibition)

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