DEMON BIRD WITH ICE SKATES IN THE DARK Detail from Triptych of the Temptation of St. Anthony by Hieronymus Bosch Kids T-Shirt

The Triptych of Temptation of St. Anthony ,oil painting on wood panels by the Early Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch around 1501. A monster on ice skates approaches three fiends who are hiding under a bridge across which pious men are helping an unconscious Saint Anthony. The monster, wearing a badge that Bax says can be recognized as the emblem of a messenger, bears a letter that is supposedly a protest of Saint Anthony’s treatment. But the letter, according to (Bosch scholar and author Dirk) Bax, is in mirror writing, a sure sign that the monster and the fiends are mocking the saint. The monster wears a funnel that symbolizes intemperance and wastefulness, sports a dry twig and a ball that signify licentious merrymaking, and has lop