page_title: The Titan's Goblet
hierarchical_section_title: The Titan's Goblet
caption_attribution_description: Exterior (shutters) of The Garden of Earthly Delights. Dargestellt ist der Zustand der Erdkugel am Ende des dritten Schöpfungstages, wo die Trennung zwischen Licht und Finsternis, Himmel und Erde, Wasser und Land bereits vollzogen ist (Genesis 1,1-13). Der Maler sieht die Erdoberfläche als Scheibe, integriert diese aber schon in eine Kugel, wobei der untere Teil mit Wasser gefüllt ist.
context_page_description: The Titan's Goblet is an oil painting by the English-born American landscape artist Thomas Cole. Painted in 1833, it is perhaps the most enigmatic of Cole's allegorical or imaginary landscape scenes. It is a work that "defies full explanation", according to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Titan's Goblet has been called a "picture within a picture" and a "landscape within a landscape": the goblet stands on conventional terrain, but its inhabitants live along its rim in a world all their own. Vegetation covers the entire brim, broken only by two tiny buildings, a Greek temple and an Italian palace. The vast waters are dotted with sailing vessels. Where the water spills upon the ground below, grass and a more rudimentary civilization spring up.
context_section_description: The Titan's Goblet is an oil painting by the English-born American landscape artist Thomas Cole. Painted in 1833, it is perhaps the most enigmatic of Cole's allegorical or imaginary landscape scenes. It is a work that "defies full explanation", according to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Titan's Goblet has been called a "picture within a picture" and a "landscape within a landscape": the goblet stands on conventional terrain, but its inhabitants live along its rim in a world all their own. Vegetation covers the entire brim, broken only by two tiny buildings, a Greek temple and an Italian palace. The vast waters are dotted with sailing vessels. Where the water spills upon the ground below, grass and a more rudimentary civilization spring up.
caption: The exterior panels of Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights
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