How does this artwork elucidate its Influences?
The woman about to climb the steps of the building is modeled after a figure from the right-hand panel of Hieronymus Bosch's 1500 triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights. This panel is individually titled Hell; a portion of it was recreated by Escher as a lithograph in 1935.The ridge in the background is part of the Morrone Mountains in Abruzzo, that Escher had visited several times when living in Italy during the 1920s and 1930s.
Abruzzo The Garden of Earthly Delights Hieronymus Bosch Morrone Mountains lithograph