Northern Renaissance · c. 1516
Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450–1516
Museo del Prado · Madrid
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Hieronymus Bosch painted The Haywain Triptych around 1516 as a moral allegory for humanity. Three hinged panels read left to right: paradise lost, a carnival of greed, the fires of consequence. Every inch swarms with figures pulling, climbing, falling.
Bosch offered not comfort but warning.
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Room 56A · Level 0
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