St. John the Evangelist on Patmos
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St. John on Patmos is a painting by Hieronymus Bosch. The painting is currently in the Gemäldegalerie, in Berlin
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The reverse is also painted, the title of that picture is Scenes from the Passion of Christ and the Pelican with Her Young.

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St. John the Evangelist on Patmos forms a pair with St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness
St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness
St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness is an oil painting by Hieronymus Bosch. The painting is currently in the Museo Lázaro Galdiano, in Madrid, Spain. How it arrived in Spain is not clear, but it forms a pair with St. John the Evangelist on Patmos which is in Berlin. In the 1940s it was noticed...

, which is in Madrid. The two paintings may have been designed as wings of an altarpiece. Such an origin would explain the grisaille
Grisaille
Grisaille is a term for painting executed entirely in monochrome or near-monochrome, usually in shades of grey. It is particularly used in large decorative schemes in imitation of sculpture. Many grisailles in fact include a slightly wider colour range, like the Andrea del Sarto fresco...

 painting on the reverse, as it is characteristic of polyptych
Polyptych
A polyptych generally refers to a painting which is divided into sections, or panels. The terminology that follows is in relevance to the number of panels integrated into a particular piece of work: "diptych" describes a two-part work of art; "triptych" describes a three-part work; "tetraptych"...

s to have both sides of folding panels decorated.
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