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35: Hieronymus Bosch • The Hell Panel (The Garden of Earthly Delights Part II)

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The Tree Man and the Inferno Cathedral

Bosch painted the broken edifice of a church, with demonic monks and blue robes standing in the front. To the left of the tree man is what can only be described as an inferno cathedral. The church's steeple is an enormous horse's skull, with a long staff protruding from its eye socket. Within the bowl of that key hangs a lifeless human body, with a crow flying toward its rear.

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