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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 right panel (220 × 97.5 cm, 87 × 38.4 in) illustrates Hell, the setting of a number of Bosch paintings. Bosch depicts a world in which humans have succumbed to temptations that lead to evil and reap eternal damnation. The tone of this final panel strikes a harsh contrast to those preceding it.
Paintings by Hieronymus Bosch, as well as paintings attributed to him or his school, have been compiled by various organizations. An investigation undertaken by The Bosch Research and Conservation Project of a multitude of Bosch's paintings included dendrochronological research and made an approximate dating of the paintings possible. [ 1 ]
In October 2015, the Bosch Research and Conservation Project, [9] which had been responsible, since 2007, for technical research on most of Bosch's paintings, rejected the attribution to Bosch and deemed it to be made by a follower, most likely the discipulo. [10] In response, the Prado Museum stated that they still consider the piece to be ...
Latterly art historians have added a further dimension to the subject of ambiguity in Bosch's work, emphasising ironic tendencies, for example in The Garden of Earthly Delights, both in the central panel (delights), [36] and the right panel (hell). [37]
Ascent of the Blessed is a Hieronymus Bosch painting made between 1505 and 1515. It depicts angels helping human souls towards heaven. The attribution to Bosch is not universally accepted. [1] It is located in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice, Italy. [2] This painting is part of a polyptych of four panels entitled Visions of the Hereafter.
The depictions of hell, heaven, and earth in Bosch's artwork showcase the varying stages of existence as the panels move from scenes of heaven to Earth, and finally, shift onwards into Bosch's visions of hell. The left panel in The Hermit Saints depicts a hierarchal depiction of hell and each of the hermit saints devotion to Christ. [1] [2]
Fall of the Damned into Hell is a painting by the Early Netherlandish artist Hieronymus Bosch made sometime before 1490. It is currently in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice, Italy. [1] This painting is part of a four-panel polyptych; the others are Ascent of the Blessed, Terrestrial Paradise and Hell.