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Hieronymus Bosch's Surreal Imagery
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The Garden of Earthly Delights
A triptych presenting a surreal, detailed narrative from Eden to Hell, highlighting fantastical creatures, human debauchery, and otherworldly landscapes.
The Temptation of St. Anthony
Narrates St. Anthony's spiritual trials with detailed, bizarre, and nightmarish figures, combining humans, animals, and objects.
The Last Judgment
Features a chaotic and nightmarish vision of the end times, with a variety of hybrid creatures, distorted human forms, and a collapsing environment.
The Cure of Folly
Illustrates the satirical 'extraction of the stone of madness', with emblematic characters including a 'doctor', a nun, and a jester, in a setting replete with ironic and surreal elements.
The Haywain Triptych
In this triptych, the haywagon symbolizes the folly of human greed, surrounded by a panorama of surreal vignettes and absurd characters.
The Ship of Fools
Depicts foolish humans aboard a vessel, unaware of their impending doom, surrounded by surreal and eerie imagery including hybrid creatures and ominous symbols.
Christ Carrying the Cross
Although a more traditional religious scene, it includes Bosch's surreal touch with a densely packed crowd of distorted, exaggerated faces and figures.
The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things
This work uses a variety of fantastical creatures and bizarre scenes to symbolize the sins and the existential states of Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell.
Death and the Miser
A narrative that showcases the moral choice between spiritual and material wealth with uncanny elements like a spectral figure and monstrous demons.
The Conjurer
A depiction of a magician performing tricks, with onlookers being pick-pocketed, encapsulating human folly and deception alongside bizarre creatures in the backdrop.
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