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18 June 2009 Hieronymus Bosch

Hieronymus Bosch, Temptation of St. Anthony, right wing

Brussels Museum of Fine Arts

Hieronymus Bosch (Jeroen van Aken, ca 1450-1516), Temptation of St. Anthony, right wing. Original, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon. Copy, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels.

The right wing is about St. Antony enticed by food and sex scenes. Standing in the water at the left of the hermit, a devil-queen surrounded by her servants, offers Anthony a glimpse of her infatuating naked body from a cavity in a dead trunk partly covered by a red curtain, held at one side by a frog-like demon savouring wine, poured from above.

Anthony averts his eyes from this obscenity, only to be aroused by the half-naked demonic herald towards a devilish feast around a game table on the foreground. In the background looms the bewitching city of the devil-queen.


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