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Triptych painting The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, showing three panels with fantastical scenes of paradise, earthly pleasures, and hell, filled with figures, animals, and surreal imagery.

Personal story told in three panels

A woman views Francis Bacon's triptych Three Studies of Lucian Freud, featuring three painted portraits of a seated man against a yellow background, displayed in gold frames.

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Fra Angelico

Italian painter

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Giovanni Bellini

Italian painter