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Ten Depictions of Hell
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Giotto: detail of The Last Judgment Jan van Eyck: The Crucifixion and The Last Judgment Sandro Botticelli: The Map of Hell Hiëronymus Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights The Last Judgment Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Mad Meg William-Adolphe Bouguereau: Dante and Virgil Fuyuko Matsui: Scattered Deformities in the End
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Giotto: detail of The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck: The Crucifixion and The Last Judgment
Sandro Botticelli: The Map of Hell
Hiëronymus Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights
The Last Judgment
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Mad Meg
William-Adolphe Bouguereau: Dante and Virgil
Fuyuko Matsui: Scattered Deformities in the End
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