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

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How to Interpret Bosch's Inferno

Bosch may be depicting scenarios and symbols that people of his time easily understood, but which are no longer commonplace for us. Simoni was considered a very serious problem of the Catholic Church from as early as the 5th century all the way to Bosch's time. In 1494, when Bosch may have already been working on this painting, a monk of the Carmelite Order preached publicly against the practice of Simoni. Yeah, sounds less like a church and more like the mob.

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