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PROPAGANDA

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The Garden of Delights, detail center panel, bottom left. Naked men and women offer and eat giant berries. A couple makes love in a glass bubble, "pleasure is as fragile as glass"; large birds watch the bathers. Inv. 2823
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The Garden of Delights, detail center panel, bottom left. Naked men and wome...

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...

A feast for gods. While the gods are assembled around a table with oysters, lobsters and melon, an orchestra of nude female musicians accompanies the meal. Oil on copper, 47 x 66 cm Inv. 358
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A feast for gods. While the gods are assembled around a table with oysters, lo...

Algernon, 10th Duke of Northumberland (1632-1668), sided with Parliament against the King in the Civil War, but opposed the execution of James I. Oil on canvas
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Algernon, 10th Duke of Northumberland (1632-1668), sided with Parliament ag...

Allegory on fleeting time. The angel-genius holds a portrait cameo of Emperor Charles V. On the table next to the hour-glass the inscription "NIL OMNI". Oil on canvas, 139,5 x 174 cm Inv. 771
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Allegory on fleeting time. The angel-genius holds a portrait cameo of Empero...

Carlos II as Grand Master of the Order of the Golden Fleece. Last Spanish Habsburg, died without issue. Oil on canvas
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Carlos II as Grand Master of the Order of the Golden Fleece. Last Spanish Hab...

Las Meninas (the maids of honour).Velazquez (in a self- portrait),paints the Spanish royal couple, Philip IV and his wife Mariana (visible in the mirror in back). Their only child,Margarita,is surrounded by maids of honour and court dwarfs.1656,canvas,318 x 276,Inv.1174
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Las Meninas (the maids of honour).Velazquez (in a self- portrait),paints the Spa...

Hercules and Omphale. Hercules is sold as a slave to Omphale, Queen of Lydia, to atone for the murder of Iphtios and the theft of the tripod of Delphi. The hero is forced to wear Omphale's clothes and jewelry. Copper, 24 x 19 cm Inv. 1126
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Hercules and Omphale. Hercules is sold as a slave to Omphale, Queen of Lydia,...

Lascivia; allegory on voluptiousness and wantonness. The nude woman looks at two copulating sparrows; her dispassionate gaze is reflected in the mirror, symbol of vanity. 1615-1618. Oil on canvas, 107,5 x 97 cm
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Lascivia; allegory on voluptiousness and wantonness. The nude woman looks at...