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

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Chapter 4 - The Tremen

Bosch depicts this knight on the red disk who is being eaten by demonic rats, but there are two important details we missed. He is holding a golden chalice, and laying next to it is a Eucharist. On his other hand, he holds the tail end of a flag that he's fallen on. The flag displays a toad, the recurring badge of hell, interpreted in the Middle Ages as a symbol of greed. And I just noticed this, directly under these symbols, Bosch displays another ass,. recall the three other instances of this, the two sleeping women, and the shadowy opening in the corrupted fountain. Here it is shown an immediate proximity to the holiest

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