Leap (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Terry Tempest Williams
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Fine arts, natural history, and memoirs
- Time of Work: 1500-2000
- Setting: Spain and the United States
- Principal Characters: Hieronymus Bosch, Terry Tempest Williams, Mariko Umeoka Taki, Theresa, Damien Hirst, Philip II, Joseph Smith, Saint Teresa of Ávila
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir, History, Arts
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Art or artists, Religion, Painting or painters, Fifteenth century, Mormons, Natural history
- Locales: United States, Spain
In Leap, Utah naturalist Terry Tempest Williams enters the world of the visual imagination in an unusual, book-length meditation on the meaning of the painting The Garden of Delights by the medieval Flemish painter Hieronymus Bosch. The painting is a triptych, or three-paneled oil on wood, whose center panel measures approximately seven feet by six feet and whose side panels are seven feet by three feet. The three panels depict richly animated and complex images of paradise, earthly delights, and hell. The painting, possibly commissioned by Hendrik of Nassau in Flanders as...
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