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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    
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...

The Haywain. A Flemish proverb says "The World is a
haywain from which every man takes what he can". The
rich, Emperor and Pope, arrive in grand cavalcade; the
poor grab what they can and the clergy have already
taken their share. Wood, 135 x 100 cm   Inv. 2052
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The Haywain. A Flemish proverb says "The World is a haywain from which every ma...

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...

Christ on the Mount of Olives, 1490-1491               
Distemper on fir-wood, 209 x 134 cm                    
Inv. 4840
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Christ on the Mount of Olives, 1490-1491 Distemper on fir-wood, 2...

Crucifixion, 1490.                                     
Distemper on fir-wood, 209 x 134 cm                    
Inv. 4843
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Crucifixion, 1490. Distemper on fir-wood, 2...

Landscape with rest during the Flight to Egypt.        
Second half 16th                                       
Oakwood, 38,5 x 51,5 cm                                
Inv. 950
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Landscape with rest during the Flight to Egypt. Second half 16th...