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NNadir

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4. Absolutely one of my favorite Bosch paintings, well played.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue Apr 7, 2026, 09:03 AM

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I became familiar with Bosch because a detail from his painting The Last Judgement was on the cover of an early paperback edition Kosinski's The Painted Bird..

I thus became familiar with his work. Increasingly we are living in a Boschian hell in at least a psychological sense.

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