Fra Angelico 1387 – 1455
Hell
tempera on panel (102 × 28 cm) — c. 1435 - 1440
Gemäldegalerie der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin
This work is linked to Revelation 20:4
Art and the Bible - Revelation 20 - New Testament
Revelation 20 1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, 3 And cast him
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The right wing of Fra Angelico's Last Judgement. It shows the seven hells, one for each cardinal 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.
The seven sins were: greed, wrath, lust, sloth, pride, envy and gluttony.
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