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Mytological Animals


Mythological animals.



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The Garden of Delights, triptych, center panel. Groups of people and animals, fantastic constructions and strange plants form an allegory of the pursuit of carnal pleasures. Wood, 220 x 195 cm Inv. 2823
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The Garden of Delights, triptych, center panel. Groups of people and animals, f...

The Garden of Delights, detail of center panel, top. Naked men and women ride on real and imaginary animals around a pool with bathers. An ornate fountain in the background. An allegory on the pursuit of carnal pleasures. Inv. 2823
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The Garden of Delights, detail of center panel, top. Naked men and women ride...

The Garden of Delights, detail center panel, bottom right. Nude men and women eat and offer giant berries; an owl symbolizes knowledge; the panel is an allegory on the pursuit of carnal pleasures. Inv. 2823
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The Garden of Delights, detail center panel, bottom right. Nude men and wome...

The Garden of Delights, triptych, right panel. A vision of Hell and its punishments. A city on fire in the background; various tortures; a pig with the veil of an abbess represents the corrupt clergy. Wood, 220 x 97 cm Inv. 2823
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The Garden of Delights, triptych, right panel. A vision of Hell and its punishme...

The Garden of Delights, detail right panel, bottom half The tortures of Hell; abandoned musical instruments symbolize punishment for carnal sins. Right foreground a pig with the veil of an abbess stands for the currupt clergy. Inv. 2823
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The Garden of Delights, detail right panel, bottom half The tortures of Hell; ab...

The Garden of Delights, right panel, top half. A burning city in the background; fleeing people drown in a lake of fire; bagpipes and knives as sexual symbols; tortures of Hell. Inv. 2823
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The Garden of Delights, right panel, top half. A burning city in the ba...

The temptation of St. Anthony the Great. The head of an abbess sits atop a whorehouse; her hat is a bird-house. Wood, 70 x 115 cm Inv. 2913
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The temptation of St. Anthony the Great. The head of an abbess sits atop a...

Allegory on the Turkish War in which imperial troops forced the Turks to retreat from Transsylvania. The battle of Sissak (1587). Oil on canvas
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Allegory on the Turkish War in which imperial troops forced the Turks to retr...

Allegory on the Turkish War in which the Imperial troops forced the Turks to retreat from Transsylvania. The battle of Kronstadt (1687) Oil on canvas
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Allegory on the Turkish War in which the Imperial troops forced the Turks...

Beatrice addresses Dante from the carriage. Pen and watercolour, 37,2 x 52,7 cm
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Beatrice addresses Dante from the carriage. Pen and watercolour, 37,...

Saint George fighting the dragon. Around 1515. (The angel has been added later) Firwood,134,5 x 116 cm Inv.5669
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Saint George fighting the dragon. Around 1515. (The angel has been adde...

Hercules delivers Dejaneira from the centaur Eurytion. Copper, 33 x 44 cm Inv. 1147
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Hercules delivers Dejaneira from the centaur Eurytion. Copper, 33 x 44 cm...