Themes
Van den Broeck's painting Two Young Men has been interpreted as depicting a sexual relationship through its symbolism; this is deemed "unlikely" by the Fitzwilliam Museum, which states that the two young men are more likely brothers, and that death, rather than sex, is the subject of the painting's symbolic allusions.
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