The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, 1490
Museo del Prado · wikidata.org
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The two outer panels fold shut over the middle like doors, and the backs of them are painted grey — a world with the colour not switched on yet. Whether the middle is a warning about giving in to temptation or something a lot fonder than that, no one seems to have settled in five hundred years.
Erisava: Somebody paid for this. I can't imagine what they thought they'd ordered.
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If it's a warning, it doesn't look like it's trying very hard to put anyone off.