A detail from the left panel of Hieronymus Bosch's Triptych of the Haywain, 1500-1505.



The Haywain treats humanity's continual fall from grace due to its own perfidy. This left panel explores both the Fall of the rebel angels from Heaven and Adam and Eve's Fall from obedience in the Garden of Eden, which, for Bosch, begins not with Adam's creation but with Eve's.