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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 199. Not illustrated. Chapters: Paintings on the Theme of Death, Paintings With Biblical Themes, Religious Paintings, the Garden of Earthly Delights, John the Baptist, Isle of the Dead, Tribute Money, Ophelia, Judith and Holofernes, the End of the World, Belshazzar's Feast, the Creation of Adam, Opening of the Fifth Seal, Sacrifice of Isaac, Conversion on the Way to Damascus, the Triumph of Death, the Raising of Lazarus, Massacre of the Innocents, Resurrection of Christ, the Shadow of Death, Samson and Delilah, the Conversion of Saint Paul, Expulsion From the Garden of Eden, Victory O Lord!, David With the Head of Goliath, Vienna, Judith Beheading Holofernes, David and Goliath, Martha and Mary Magdalene, Silent Woman, Jacob Wrestling With the Angel, Esther, the Tower of Babel, St. John the Baptist, the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, the Incredulity of Saint Thomas, Burial of St. Lucy, Vision of St. John on Patmos, the Four Apostles, Salome With the Head of John the Baptist, London, the Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things, the Garden of Death, the Woman Taken in Adultery, Bathsheba at Her Bath, Deliverance of Saint Peter, Adam and Eve, the Denial of Saint Peter, the First Mourning, Salome With the Head of John the Baptist, Madrid, the Marriage Feast at Cana, Krishna and Radha in a Pavilion, Creation of the World, the Judgement of Salomon, Crossing of the Red Sea, the Prodigal Son in the Tavern, St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness, the Conversion of Saul, Crucifixion With a Donor. Excerpt: The Garden of Earthly Delights is a triptych painted by the early Netherlandish master Hieronymus Bosch (c. 14501516), housed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid since 1939. Dating from between 1490 and 1510, when Bosch was about 40 or 50 years old, it is his best-known and most ambitious work. The masterpiece reveals the artist at t...