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painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

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depictions of Hell

  • Giotto: detail of The Last Judgment
    In Ten Depictions of Hell: Mad Meg (1561) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

    …master of portraying abstract proverbs, paints such a woman here. Wearing a breastplate and some kind of helmet, she strides toward the mouth of hell, depicted as—what else?—a giant mouth, in the middle ground toward the left. Confusingly, the fiery landscape of earth appears to be the actual hell. It…

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