Bun

Detail from “In the Presence of the Lord” by Francesc Masriera

Ophelia

この世界の片隅に 夕凪の街 桜の国

Archangel Michael Hurls the Rebellious Angels into the Abyss (detail) by Luca Giordano, circa 1666.

Hieronymus Bosch, Hell. This is the whole vertical panel (one of four of Paradise and Hell), of one of Bosch’s exceptional luminous scenes. Fire may have had a special intensity for Bosch due to a catastrophic fire in his town of ‘s-Hertogenbosch that set thousands of homes ablaze, which Bosch likely witnessed at the young age of thirteen. One can compare the fire-lit darkness in this panel to the burning city in the right panel of Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights. Here he achieved this using a wet-on-wet technique to paint the light over a layer of black, illuminating the tortured souls below.

Andrea Mantegna, Lamentation over the Dead Christ or Dead Christ (detail), 1480

Filippo Negroli (ca. 1510–1579)

The Dragon Devouring the Companions of Cadmus (detail) by Hendrick Goltzius, 1588.

Sisyphus, Titian, 1548-49

Detail from Perseus and Andromeda by Joachim Anthoniszoon Wtewael.

Side chapel of the Cathedral of Ravenna, housing a miraculous image of the Madonna and Child.

Rubens, Head of Medusa, 1615, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

The torments of hell by Carl Ludwig Beutler, 1669.

The Fall of the Damned by Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1620.

The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Jan Deyman (detail) by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1656.

Christ’s Descent into Hell (detail) from a follower of Hieronymus Bosch, second quarter of the 16th century.