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The Broad and the Narrow Road
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
In the foreground, a celebrating company at a table (left) and a praying man (right). The narrow path leads to heaven, represented as a palace bathed in heavenly light; the broad path leads to hell, represented as a burning castle with the gaping mouth of the monster in the moat. A devil in the foreground tries to pull a man off the good path with a rope. Christ looks on from a cloud. The various figures and scenes are indicated with letters A-P, which refer to the legend in the margin.
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Credit lineBrede en de smalle weg. 1563 - before 1619. Hieronymus Wierix. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.