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A hellscape is a harsh environment, an unpleasant place, or a scene thought to resemble hell. [1] A depiction of hell in a work of art is called a hellscape. [2] The earliest known use of the term in print was in 1894. [2]
Within his lifetime, his work was collected in the Netherlands, Austria, and Spain, and widely copied, especially his macabre and nightmarish depictions of hell. Little is known of Bosch's life, though there are some records. He spent most of it in the town of 's-Hertogenbosch, where he was born in his
A Hellmouth, or the jaws of Hell, is the entrance to Hell envisaged as the gaping mouth of a huge monster, an image which first appeared in Anglo-Saxon art, and then spread all over Europe. It remained very common in depictions of the Last Judgment and Harrowing of Hell until the end of the Middle Ages , and is still sometimes used during the ...
The castle in the first circle of hell, as illustrated by Stradanus The first circle of hell is depicted in Dante Alighieri 's 14th-century poem Inferno , the first part of the Divine Comedy . Inferno tells the story of Dante's journey through a vision of hell ordered into nine circles corresponding to classifications of sin.
Hell is an oil-on-panel painting executed after 1490 by the Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch. It is currently in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice, Italy. [1] This painting is part of a series of four. The others are Ascent of the Blessed, Terrestrial Paradise and Fall of the Damned into Hell.
The geography of hell is very elaborately laid out in this work, with nine concentric rings leading deeper into Earth, and deeper into the various punishments of hell, until, at the center of the world, Dante finds Satan himself trapped in the frozen lake of Cocytus. A small tunnel leads past Satan and out to the other side of the world, at the ...
All the Fiends of Hell is an especially grim and very British Armageddon. It’s The Road as directed by Ken Loach. It’s also Nevill’s best book in some time.
Gibson compares this "Prince of Hell" to a figure in the 12th-century Irish religious text Vision of Tundale, who feeds on the souls of corrupt and lecherous clergy. [47] Animals are shown punishing humans, subjecting them to nightmarish torments that may symbolise the seven deadly sins, matching the torment to the sin