About 10 yards in front of the painting is an interactive kiosk that explains the painting's history and allows visitors to focus in on certain historically important aspects of the battle scene.

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His concern was never a book's place in the canon or a painting's in art history.

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"For my work, I use henna and spices - they have a long history here, but offer fresh possibilities in painting, " she says.

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The painting's brutalized characters, drawn from history, the Bible, popular culture and even Ensor's family, align the Symbolist artist with a satiric tradition that includes such earlier Northern painters as Hieronymous Bosch and Pieter Bruegel.

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