# The Garden of Delights \(Hortus Deliciarum\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, German]() - Date: 1151-1200 - Technique: Manuscript \(facsimile\) ## Commentary The Garden of Delights \(Hortus Deliciarum\) c. 1180 Manuscript \(facsimile\) Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris The picture shows a group of Jews, a detail of the Last Judgment. During the Middle Ages, Jews are frequently singled out for specific punishment in Last Judgment scenes. This can be seen in the illustration to the Garden of Delights in which a group of Jews, naked but for their pointed hats, are thrown by demonic, grimacing figures into a burning cauldron neatly labeled Judei. Such imagery, devised by the church, provided an ideological justification for violence against the Jews. ## Related artworks - [Aachen Gospels]() - [Aachen Gospels]() - [Ada Gospels]() - [Allegory of the Sacraments]() - [Antoninus Florentinus: Chronicon]() - [Aratea]() - [Astronomical-computist collection]() - [Astronomicum caesareum]() - [Astronomicum caesareum]() - [Bamberg Apocalypse]() - [Bamberg Apocalypse]() - [Bamberg Apocalypse]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()