BOSCH, Hieronymus
(b. ca. 1450, 's-Hertogenbosch, d. 1516, 's-Hertogenbosch)

Triptych of Temptation of St Anthony (detail)

1505-06
Oil on panel
Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon

The detail of the right wing depicts the main gate of the city of the Devil-Queen.

The demonic nature of the city of the Devil-Queen is betrayed by the dragon swimming in the moat and by the flames erupting from the top of the main gate.