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.

Hieronymus Bosch

Single panels	Adoration of the Child Adoration of the Magi (New York) Adoration of the Magi (Philadelphia) Allegory of Gluttony and Lust Christ Carrying the Cross (Vienna) Christ Carrying the Cross (Ghent) Christ Carrying the Cross (Madrid) Christ Child with a Walking Frame Christ Crowned with Thorns (El Escorial) Christ Crowned with Thorns (London) Concert in the Egg The Conjurer Crucifixion with a Donor Cutting the Stone Death and the Miser Death of the Reprobate Ecce Homo (Bosch, 1470s) Ecce Homo (Bosch, 1490s) Head of a Halberdier Head of a Woman Hell The Marriage Feast at Cana Paradise and Hell The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things Ship of Fools Saint Christopher Carrying the Christ Child St. Jerome at Prayer St. John the Evangelist on Patmos St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness The Temptation of St Anthony Two Male Heads The Wayfarer

Triptychs	The Crucifixion of St Julia Adoration of the Magi (The Epiphany) The Garden of Earthly Delights The Haywain Triptych Triptych of the Temptation of St. Anthony The Hermit Saints

Triptych fragments	Fall of the Damned into Hell Ascent of the Blessed The Last Judgment The Last Judgment, Bruges (with workshop) The Last Judgment (fragment) Terrestrial Paradise

Related	Bosch paintings Bosch drawings

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