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Moving on, Room 17 boasts a copy of the Hieronymus Bosch
Temptations of St Anthony that's in the Museu Nacional in Lisbon. No one is quite sure who painted this triptych - it may or may not have been one of Bosch's apprentices - but it was certainly produced in Holland in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century. The painting refers to St Anthony, a third-century nobleman who withdrew into the desert, where he endured fifteen years of temptation before settling down into his long stint as a hermit. It was the temptations that interested Bosch - rather than the ascetic steeliness of Anthony - and the central panel has an inconspicuous saint sticking desperately to his prayers surrounded by all manner of fiendish phantoms. The side panels develop the theme: to the right Anthony is tempted by lust and greed, and on the left Anthony's companions help him back to his shelter after he's been transported through the skies by weird-looking demons.
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