garden becomes a dark, evil nightmare in the last panel of this triptych. This work, like so many of his pieces, serves as a visual lecture on morality. It also represents Bosch's best, shows the earthly paradise with the creation of woman, the first temptation, and the fall. The painting’s beautiful and unsettling images of sensuality and of the dreams that afflict the people who live in a pleasure-seeking world. Multitudes of nude human figures, giant birds, otherworldly landscape, and all the elements…
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