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11 lis 2024 · Hieronymus Bosch’s Hell, part of his renowned triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights (1503-1504), remains one of the most disturbing and complex works in the history of Western art. Housed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, this terrifying oil-on-wood panel offers a nightmarish vision of humanity’s moral decay, focusing particularly on the destructive allure […]
12 lip 2022 · The Last Judgement by Michelangelo is not only historically significant in its residency as a fresco of the famous Sistine Chapel, but it is also a religious touchstone – a carefully crafted image of the complexities of heaven, Jesus Christ (God’s son), judgment, and hell.
11 lip 2019 · Each panel features a different yet connected scene; the left depicts the Crucifixion and the right God's judgment in which souls ascend to Heaven or fall into Hell. But those who fall into Hell, among them some popes and a cardinal, are torn asunder and devoured by demons, emphasizing the indifference of God’s judgment to earthly status and ...
This image introduces the twelfth book of Saint Augustine’s City of God, originally written in the early 400s. The text discusses the existence of evil, attributing it to Lucifer’s uprising and...
21 kwi 2023 · One of the most famous depictions of hell is "The Garden of Earthly Delights" by Hieronymus Bosch. This triptych painting portrays the fall of man and the horrors of hell, with the third panel being the most terrifying.
20 paź 2022 · Join us on a journey into the shadows, as we explore five of the most frightening, disturbing, and sometimes tragic depictions of Hell throughout art history. 1. The Mouth of Hell in The Hours of Catherine of Cleves. Master of Catherine of Cleves, The Mouth of Hell, The Hours of Catherine of Cleves, c. 1440.
29 paź 2020 · Artistic interpretations of hell would increasingly stress this psychological torment over medieval physical torture, picking up perhaps on Protestant ideas of hell as a state of permanent separation from God, and literature would continue to be a primary source of inspiration.
