Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Paintings From Hell
Always a great source of inspiration for monsters, Hell has been interpreted by countless artists in many gruesome and fantastic ways. While browsing the Wikimedia Commons I found some great galleries of art based on the Last Judgement, Hell, and The Devil.

Click the following numbers to see some of my favorites. And don't forget to double click these images to see the larger versions.

1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6

The above image is taken from a painting by Fra Angelico. A detailed view of the Hell panel can be seen here and a full composition can be seen here.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Very interesting. Wikimedia is an unvaluable resource... I didn't know Coppo di Marcovaldo at all. Thank you.

Anonymous said...

The History of Hell by Alice K. Turner has most of these images, and a lot more great ones.
it's a very interesting book as well.