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| | Schiller InstituteHieronymous Bosch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | What Bosch so powerfully and humorously depicts in his work, are precisely those follies and foibles that prevent us from realizing our true nature as man made in the image of Godimago Dei. |
 | | 1490) (Figure 3) Bosch shows Christ, at the center, struggling under his heavy burden, among a sea of grotesque faces (with the exception of the woman on the left, sometimes identified as St. Veronica), men who are oblivious to his suffering. |
 | | Bosch has been called a pessimist, an alchemist, a blasphemer, a man who could not see the possibility of redemptioneven, a pornographer. |
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