Erisava Staff Aug 8

The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things by Hieronymus Bosch, 1500

The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things

Museo del Prado · wikidata.org

Public domain

This started life, from what's recorded, as a tabletop rather than a wall hanging — you were meant to look down into it like a dinner plate. Whether it's actually by Bosch himself or a workshop follower has been argued over for more than a century.

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