Fra Angelico 1387 – 1455

Hell

tempera on panel (width; 27 cm) — c. 1435 - 1440 Gemäldegalerie der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin Share on Twitter

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This work is linked to Revelation 20:4

Detail of the right wing of Fra Angelico's Last Judgement. It shows the seven hells, one for each sin, in line with the description in Dante's Inferno. The monster in the center may be a reference to the Leviathan in the Old Testament.

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