The Fall of the Rebel Angels and Friends

To Belgium, to G(h)ent and surrounds, to see the wonders thereof.

This is by Bruegel the Elder, not Bosch, wiki will tell you all about it. I saw this many moons ago in 2007, but thought less about it then. Here is a close up of a fragment.

It is all very wonderful, down to the strange frog-like thing aching to pull open her swollen belly and release her spawn. It is dream-like; similarly, in the Massacre of the Innocents, there are some dogs playing in the background, while in the foreground the hard men kick down doors.

I had thought that Milton made this up; but obvs not, this is too early. And wiki tells me it is in that reliable source, Revelations.

There's some Boschish too.

Refs

* Art for art's sake.

* Christ Carrying the Cross (Bosch, Ghent).