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"THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS describes an Eden in which the natural order of Creation has been abolished and chaos and lust reign supreme, distracting men from the path toward salvation. In this triptych, the Flemish master gives us his most lyrical and enigmatic work: the panorama of symbols from which he draws mixes Christian allegory and alchemical and esoteric symbols, which have led to the most outlandish hypotheses concerning the orthodoxy of his religious creed and his sexual behavior."
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