In the 1490s, when stepping out of line could get you burned at the stake, one painter filled a triptych with building-sized strawberries, naked acrobats, mutant birds and couples inside translucent bubbles, and the religious elite loved it. This episode steps inside The Garden of Earthly Delights to understand Hieronymus Bosch, a biographical phantom who left no diaries or letters, only tax records, guild registries and the staggering imagination preserved on his oak panels.

We move panel by panel: the grisaille exterior showing the world on the third day of creation, the Eden panel where a cat carries off a dead lizard and Adam's gaze already looks like lust, the chaotic center with no children and no elderly, and the frozen, burning hellscape with its musician's hell, bird-headed Prince of Hell, document-wielding pig in a nun's veil, and ...