The palm tree

Pay attention. There. In the lower left-hand corner of the Creation panel, behind Adam. There, there, as if sheltering him under its leaves with its characteristic forked branches similar to a string of sausages. Yes, that one: a Canary Island dragon tree. And now, the question: what does it do in The Garden of Earthly Delights? How did Bosch depict a dragon in the biblical Garden of Eden without ever having left the small Dutch town of Hertogenbosch? One of the (many) unsolved mysteries of this indecipherable painting arrives, and we have (of course) turned it into these extravagant Maxi earrings. Although, it’s true, we did have an advantage…