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LESSON 4 · Art's Greatest Unsolved Mysteries

PAUSE TO THINK

Which way does the triptych ask to be read?

Left to right, like a book

The panels run as a sequence: Eden on the left, the teeming central garden, then hell on the right. Yet the work tells no clear story between them, which is part of why scholars still argue over what Bosch actually meant.

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