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Title:
Garden of Earthly Delights, detail: Pig wearing Nun's Habit
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Description:
A nude man is accosted by a sow that attempts to seduce him into signing a legal document. The sow wear's a nun's headcover and thus also serves as a condemnation of clerical corruption, an issue that many of Bosch's contemporaries also addressed in their work.
Source:
Wikimedia Commons
Rights:
Public Domain
Subject
(See Also)
:
Ecclesiastical Reform
Headdresses
Nuns
Satire
Geographic Area:
Low Countries
Century:
15
Date:
ca. 1490-1510
Related Work:
Garden of Earthly Delights See a detailed view of all three panels from the Prado website:
http://www.museodelprado.es/imagen/alta_resolucion/P02823.jpg
See closeup views of details from Wikimedia Commons:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Garden_of_Earthly_Delights
Current Location:
Madrid, Museo del Prado, P02823
Original Location:
Artistic Type (Category):
Digital images; Paintings
Artistic Type (Material/Technique):
Panel; Oil
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