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van Eyck, Jan and Hubert: Ghent Altarpiece
What inspired Peter Paul Rubens's Descent from the Cross?
Earth, heaven, and hell: Hiëronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Peasant Dance Peter Paul Rubens: The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus Hiëronymus Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Peasant Dance
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What inspired Peter Paul Rubens's Descent from the Cross?
Rubens painted Descent from the Cross as part of an altarpiece for a cathedral...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Earth, heaven, and hell: Hiëronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights
Although Bosch did not sign his name on the artwork, there is little doubt that The...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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van Eyck, Jan and Hubert: Ghent Altarpiece
Ghent Altarpiece (open view), polyptych with 12 panels, oil on panel by Jan and Hubert...
© Paul M.R. Maeyaert—Scala/Art Resource, New York
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Peasant Dance
Peasant Dance, oil on wood by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1568; in the...
Kunsthistoriches, Vienna, Austria/SuperStock
Peter Paul Rubens: The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus
The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus, oil painting by Peter Paul Rubens,...
Scala/Art Resource, New York
Hiëronymus Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights
The Garden of Earthly Delights, oil-on-wood triptych by Hiëronymus Bosch,...
Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain/Giraudon, Paris/SuperStock
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Peasant Dance
Peasant Dance, oil on wood by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1568; in the...
Courtesy of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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