Image: Bosch's Christ Carrying the Cross

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An image I came across, different from most of the allegorically-populated supernatural landscapes that Bosch's name generally evokes. Christ carrying his cross through the unheeding boors of the crowd could be an indictment of the world, or it could be a realism (especially compared with a gold-embossed, haloed christ with supplicants looking to him for salvation, all the while dragging a heavy wooden T on the road to Golgotha).
Another interesting detail - the woman in the bottom left looking pleased with her Turin-like shroud.
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Braineel annotation:
Various misled and mismanaged talents ran rampant in the sloth-eyed dawn. Slack-jawed with upturned eyes and downcast bearings, they trudged sadly up a mountain of shit. Gut-wrenched and hunger-wracked, a poorer band the land had never seen. Raucous and toothless, they meandered, head-hobbled and gnarled-legged, straggling men and women; splotches of hair sprouting oddly from patchwork bodies. All pursued no clear end but one; and he, beautiful as a harvest feast, bore a tree towards the joyous hill at Golgotha. Somehow more understanding then the mass of human wreckage, he walked among-above. One woman within the awkward throng saw his image, and was made beautiful.
Thou shalt worship no graven images, she is a witch.



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