<human>:  What is the history behind the painting The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch?
<bot>: The Garden of Earthly Delights is a triptych oil painting on wood panel by the early Netherlandish master Hieronymous Bosch (c. 1450–1516). Produced between 1490 and 1510, the painting is the largest and most complex of Bosch's surviving works, linked to the intellectual movements of the day, including humanism and the esoteric. The painting is filled with religious iconography, complex allegories and mythic creatures, and has long been debated in terms of its symbolic meaning. It has been suggested that the garden is a spiritual or prelapsarian paradise, with mankind before the advent of sin and knowledge. Other interpretations posit that it represents the progression of humanity from the innocence of birth to the suffering of old age and death. The highly detailed landscape and the countless figures represented in it have made the painting the subject of much scholarly analysis and interpretation.