Dramatic Depictions of Hell
Over many generations, in countless cultures and societies, artists of all types have been inspired, fascinated and enthralled by the concept of the afterlife. Ever since medieval times, artists from all over Europe, and eventually other continents, have delved into their own interpretations of what we might see when entering the divine gates of heaven. Or on the other hand, in the absolute worst-case scenario, what one might see or experience if condemned to the pits of hell. I have always been very curious in artists’ different interpretations of heaven and hell, ever since I first laid eyes on the incredibly detailed works of Heironymous Bosch. Outside of painting and illustrating, artistic interpretations of what we might discover following our inevitable end, would also enter into literature. The famous poet and philosopher, Dante Alighieri, would complete an epic, narrative poem called The Divine Comedy, detailing a journey from hell, to purgatory and eventually heaven. This manuscript would start a trail of similar works of literature generations later, like Paradise Lost by John Milton. As painting and writing are two art forms that go hand-in-hand, many artists over the ages began to illustrate scenes from these writings. Including, of course, the realm of Hell. I can’t help but find it fascinating how at some stage in our history, artists and writers alike would more or less reinterpret the workings, lore and visual aspect of the afterlife, rather than solely adhere to the teachings of the church. I find it to be a truly revolutionary milestone in artistic expression, considering how enraged a vast majority of religious people at the time would have been to see and read such things. And also, of course, it would continue to inspire many other artists, filmmakers, writers, musicians and everyone in-between, right up to present day. Today we will be venturing through the great deep, as we observe different paintings of hell.
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Regarding the woman looking into a mirror on a demon's butt, there's a relatively famous medieval woodcut of a woman looking into a mirror and combing her hair, however the reflection in the mirror is the devil mooning her. The message being that a woman who indulges in vanity and spends too long looking in a a mirror will end up as ugly as the devil's arse. Bosch might have been referencing that.
Eerily similar to the Picture of Dorian Gray
"Regarding the woman looking into a mirror on a demon's butt." That's got to be the best beginning to a youtube comment ever.
I give this comment a 5/5 rating
Reminds me of Attack on Titan when, (spoilers) Frida stares too long in the mirror and ends up seeing the 'devil' herself.
@@patrckhh20 lol
I could listen to your thoughts and interpretations on historical art pieces all day. I manage to absorb every word, I love learning about the dark side of art in general.
Perhaps he should get a podcast haha
Amazing how 99% of people in hell are white Europeans😆 LMAOOOOO
@@the2ndcoming135 don't count on it, these are all lies about hell. Hell is 2nd death When the soul is dead, it can't move, see, hear or speak. There are only 2 things in hell and there is nothing else there. 1) fire 2) souls burning. Other than fire and burning souls, there is nothing there. Hell is 2nd death period
@@luismangiaterra1031 wrong.
@@luismangiaterra1031 I don’t even know you. So, technically you’re in hell as we speak😁
The Garden Of Earthly Deligths is one of my favorite pieces of art ever. There's just ~so much~ going on, and every little detail is so baffling.
It's beautifully baffling I would say but indeed a work if art 🎨
What are your thoughts on hell dj?
I think you need to meet Satan
If you don’t believe, you’re gonna believe someday
Once again... fascinating stuff. Although you're discussing literal hell, Goya's Disasters of War series would fit (un)comfortably in here. That just tells us that we as a species still have a long way to go. ....and in the most unfit way to end this comment on this topic, I'll simply say: Cheers!
You're in the right perspective, I should say. Perhaps a modern vision of these artists would be a depiction of our consumerism, the evil spirit animating our current social downfall.
It gets me when I read people say things that, if one were to look around, would be obvious.
Hell is real
Okay
@@brennansmith6474 haha yea it’s North Korea
I like how you made a reference with As Above So Below. While not being a great horror film, the concept of them having to go deeper to save themselves was brilliant and terrifying.
I agree. It's a decently interesting watch, but I wouldn't call it scary.
Bosch’s art style looks so incredibly sci fi. The fact he made it in 1503 makes me feel like the time before us, especially in the Roman times was so much more futuristic then we will ever imagine or see. Like some of the animals the made extinct and so on. I know this is off topic for the video but I just was so taken aback by that. Thank you for this beautiful video.
I have a crazy whoo whoo theory that when Noah built the arc, it was actually highly technological times and somehow the tech failed everyone and got flooded out. So the arc wasn't a boat with animals but animals genes. It's a pretty extreme and crack pot theory but when you said sci-fi 1600s I'd thought I'd share my sci-fi Noah lol
@@blahblahblah4544 gnarly ass theory. I like it
Just asking… how the hell does it give, “sci-fi” vibes?
@@c0nvict_pleb174 like if you look at it, and then look at things like the war of the worlds they’re kinda similar, and in terms of this work, it just looks futuristic like nothing that could be conjured up in that era.
@@c0nvict_pleb174 especially with the weird amalgamations of creatures
13:39 I can sympathize, my mum is an oil painter, so as a child thumbing through her art books I often see art that I recognize but can’t place my first viewing. Gorgeous stuff, my favorite painters are Waterhouse and Giger. Bosch reminds me of old Hindu art and Dahli. Thank you for making this vid!
Man I had that feeling many times Im even trying to search for a painting that I saw when I was very young, the painting involves a camel and a man behind it he looks at it and he is smiling a creepy grim almost disturbing. Alas 😔 that's all I can remember I have no info about it's name nor the artist
Italians and Catholics and Italian Catholics in particular are obsessed with death & Hell. It doesn't surprise me that Dante and all these artists took their own spin on the afterlife, particularly in the medieval period with so much political turmoil, when hell was equally used as a political tool
exactly, I'm surprised the church didn't actively commission more pieces like these. Unless they (probably) did and I just don't know about it.
Tbh i dont remember very but dante did the divina commedia because was against pope or the king (la signoria) and for that fact he got exile
Catholics are obsessed with hell? Nah
Can tell by the likes
I read something that stuck with me. To paraphrase: "There is art that is meant to portray Hell as fantasy, art that is meant to portray Hell as a real place, and art that is a piece of Hell itself."
source?
There could easily be a part 2 of this vid. You haven't touched Breughel yet, and buddhism and hindusim have their own wild versions of hell.
Plus Islam’s version of Hell I find that particularly terrifying The descriptions of it and the punishments sinners endure there are pretty visceral too and kinda sickening when you think about them long enough The creepy thing is that Hell is actually guarded by angels who are stuck with the task of stopping anyone trying to escape and ushering them back into the inferno Something about that just disturbs me and makes me weirdly sad Idk I just need to see someone talk about it
@@ezrastardust3124 it doesn't make me sad, because hell probably isn't real. That doesn't help the people that actually believed in it though.
@@TheMylittletony which is the sad part
@@TheMylittletony no one asked infidel
@@valtontony826 Infidels rule the world
When I was young girl we went to Hermitage in ST. Petersburg Russia. I have been there many times before, since my relatives live in Russia. The place is overwhelming. The amount of information your eyes need to capture will truly make your head spin. Obviously you don't have time to see everything. In order to appreciate each painting for at least few minutes, you would need to stay in Hermitage for 8 years straight. Anyway, I was rather young the first time, about 5 years old, so it was boring and nauseating for me, but next time I was 15 and could already cherish the art. They also had Egyptian exhibition there at that time, which tickled my pleasure buds. As we were leaving, I saw the souvenir outlet, which sold all kinds of postcards, pins, fridge magnets and books related to art and Hermitage. they also sold art supplies! My mother bought me watercolors and 2 easels and a book of Heironymous Bosch's art. I knew of him beforehand and as soon as I saw the book I wanted it. I still have it. His works have always exited me, with it's details, horror and weirdness. You look at it and you see the whole picture, but zoom in and smaller stories emerge. I was amazed at his imagination and ability to depict something unexplainable and unseen in such a human way. It's as if he translated Hell and Heaven in to a language humans can understand.
I adore Bosch s art.I was living in his hometown for 2 years in Netherlands.There is a fountain near city central with golden dragons.Generaly crazy energy there.
I'm from Richmond VA. and we have a famous author here and alot of artist, Edger Allen Poe museum is right down the street from me.
I'm from Italy and I find fascinating how people talk about Divine Comedy (Dante's inferno) out of Italy. I also really enjoy your videos, in particular when you talk about obscure themes like you did in the video about Goya's dark paintings. So I thought that would be interesting for you to dig deeper into the lore of Divine Comedy, I believe it would be great to listen to your thoughts about it, there are lots of paintings and so much to discover about the fundamental book of Italian literature If you find interesting the topic you can also look for Go Nagai manga version of the Divine Comedy, wich has wonderful drawings.
I can’t wait to read the Divine Comedy! Definitely Italy’s most famous contribution to world literature-Dante is to Italy what I feel like Goethe, Shakespeare, and Cervantes are to their home languages. I’m doing through Don Quixote now, but want to tackle the Divine Comedy sometime in the future. Have you read Dante? What are, in your opinion, Italy’s greatest books?
I didn't know Go Nagai made his own version of dante's divine comedy. His works got a lot of references from dante's inferno, specifically the brutality and the cruelty of the demons. I'll really enjoy to see this.
@@chambeet Well, actually I don't read the entire poem, we have it's most important part in our school program so I've studied it but not so much to say that I read it. In my opinion it's one of the greatest Italian masterpiece and its the simbol of our literature and its the text wich create the modern Italian we speak today (with some modification happened over time). My 2 favourite Italian book are also famous (at least I think so) and are: "Zeno's Coscience" and "One, nobody a hundredthousand"; I love them because they change my view of life and people
@@filippopettini5736 I totally get not having read the entirety of the Divine Comedy. I was an English literature major, and I didn't finish 90% of the books that I studied throughout high school and in college. It's really only been as an adult after college that I've tried to go back and actually read all of the classics, but I'm a VERY slow reader (I like to take notes and write all over my books), so it's slow going! I've heard of Zeno's Conscience, but not the other. I will look that one up! Good to hear from you. :)
@@filippopettini5736 Okay, I see that the second book is by Pirandello. I've heard of him, but definitely never read anything by him. What would you say are considered to be America's equivalents to Dante? I'm curious what an Italian's perspective is.
I can’t get enough of your videos man
11:45 Hell's lobster, crustacean of sin, invertebrate of agony! Fear it for he's coming for you.
Of course it could well be the terrifying "Rock Lobster" of the B-52s invention.
When I saw that my mind went straight to Crab People. Then I was imagining a few of them in that blackness but drawn just as they were in South Park. XD
He comes scuttling forth from the abyss he brings violence and hatred and leaving a multitude of death and suffering in his wake.
12:45 As an italian I can say that, that's a really good pronunciation, there's only an error in the pronunciation of "degli", but the rest is perfect.
Isn't that just typical of me 🤣 nearly had it, better luck next time eh!
When you were talking about the center panel of the Bosch painting, I couldn't help but thinking about how humankind's relationship with nature changed as people were converted from ancient pagan religions to Christianity. In some ways, people were closer and more integrated into nature when they still worshipped the sun and such. Christianity aimed to set humans apart from (and above) nature and animals. Ancient humans donned animal masks to sort of take on the aspects of that animal, whereas Christians of the time would have seen this as demonic behavior. It's hard to explain. I watched some documentaries on how Christianity spread through Europe and how it changed the way societies worked, or how it kept some things the same in order to be accepted. The Church sort of demonized nature in a way and our close relationship with plants, animals, and seasons. The middle panel, while it is supposed to show something obscene from a Christian point of view, could actually be seen as sort of idyllic to someone who thinks we should be more free and closer to nature.
Christianity is not about "saving" people, it's about control. Pure and simple.
I think it was the process of urbanization that led to the idea of conquering nature. Look at St Francis of Assisi who praised all of God's creatures. We were meant to take care of nature, the Garden, which is Heaven on Earth. Look at the great cathedrals designed to look like forests.
That is truly fascinating
I've been reading a book on Celtic christian traditions and it's pretty fascinating. Initially they happily melded nature-worship philosophies with the new philosophies of Christianity, until the church had enough money and power to step in and take those traditions away by force. If that melded tradition had been given time and space to develop over the centuries since without being subjected to authoritarian bullshit...
@@adorablecockroach5131 so true bro that's why u love your neighbor and enemy in Christianity and forgive those who do you wrong bro
The Divine Comedy is my favorite work of literature of all time. When he said Dante, I was like, hellll yeah bro! F’n LOVE DANTE! (Rips off shirt) DAN-TE DAN-TE.. haha seriously… It’s too bad very few read past Inferno .. I even named my dog Beatrice, and my fiancée just got me a Crystal for Mother’s Day (I know.. she’s a dog) with her engraving with the last words of The Comedy “The love that moves the sun and the other stars” (I’m also in the cosmology , so .. he got doubles points for that lol)
I’m on my break so I can’t hear the sound of this video so I’ll save it for later but YES!! I agree with you when it comes to Dante’s Inferno!! I love the game and the book of it, I’ve learned so much and I’m willing to learn more, and bruh that is my favorite name “Beatrice” very beautiful name💕💕
I love how art can express something and show something that can’t be described in words
It’s real and it can nightmare
Just found this channel. I have always struggled with artistic interpretations, thank you for being so thorough. I would love to see you cover some Junji Ito.
Same idk how people do it.
Excellent! This topic & the great art associated thereby subsume so many of my favorite meditations! I am an avid enthusiast of Dante Alighieri's penultimately spiritual & cosmic work! This video absolutely rocks man! So glad I got this notification today! Peace out!
After watching your examination of the black paintings. Me and my partner were absolutely made up when you uploaded this video! Thank you for your in-depth analysis once again, great work!
Great discussion of Bosch's works. Your take on his work is more personable than others I've run across.
I'm sorry for joking but 0:59 is a perfect meme. Gay Satan is leaving a monster hickey on his bf while 2 other guys watch with equal amounts of disgust and envy, while a demon flies by and is just fed up with everyone.
yeah, that flying demon's expression was kinda out of context
uh whatever you say bro
Yet another super interesting and informative video , you never miss!!! Thank you for the great content like always
I remember seeing an article on Bosch in Smithsonian magazine in the late 80’s (I still have it), which triggered my interest in this sort of art. I’m only a couple of weeks into watching your channel and I love it so far.
Imagine a guy is like “I’ll make you a painting for your marriage!” And it’s the Garden of Earthly Delights.
'Uh, thanks. But I'm not sure where it would fit on the wall'
I laughed so hard at the "glass butthloe" comment, I scared my cat! Great video, I'm now a proud subscriber.
Watching this before I take my nap… should be fun 😊
Imagine... these don't even scratch the surface.
Another amazing video! Thank You Blind Dweller love your channel 💕👏🏾
This video presentation is really outstanding. Please put together a follow-up episode examining how various 20th century painters & visual artists have chosen to depict Hell, particularly in how they have re-fashioned & reworked the classic imagery, style, visual tropes & themes seen in High Medieval, Renaissance, Traditional Gothic, and Romantic period art. Again, this is a really superb video; but all your work has been consistently exceptionally good.
This video was wonderful! Thanks a ton for taking the time to create it. I do wonder though if you'd noticed that in the last painting ALL of the music is only in the very last painting. So... music & dance are evil? OR was this actually about the Roman God Pan, the hooved God of music & dance?? This was great, dark & lovely.💕 My own personal favourite depiction of Hell, is from the movie Constantine (2005). You know, that frickin' awesome Keanu Reeves & Rachel Weisz flick? It's really such an excellent, lonely, hot & evil version. JUST LOVE IT!💕 Oh, Fun Fact: Keanu Reeves is _trying_ to create a part 2 of that movie... who wants to go see it in theatres?
I found this genuinely fascinating, very glad this popped up in my feed! I'm definitely going to check out your other videos later, you have a knack for narrating/describing what's going on in a way I want to know more about each art piece but not that I'm left scratching my head thinking wtf am I looking at here!? Then came the comment about the wedding night & that casual praise Jesus with the zoom & you got a laugh out of me, that alone deserves the sub haha!
Thank you for this amazing video 🙏🏼
Hit the ground running with that insight- Individual imaginings of hell being revolutionary. If I recall correctly, Milton was virtually blind for most of the writing of Paradise Lost. He dictated a majority of the immense poem from his bed, a fact which just annihilates my brain
Subbed! As an artist I really Enjoyed this content, I hope there will be more like this. Great video sir!
Thanks for sharing this! Outstanding.
Oh man, ya got me!!! You really got me good with that "bird with the glass behind" line so good, and I laughed so hard I almost dumped myself onto the floor.
Ooooo i was looking forward to this one. Hell is such a grossly fascinating place
Probably because we're such carnal creatures. It's a curse and when we follow carnality, we tend towards hell, when we follow biblically spiritual aspirations we tend towards heaven. But we're obsessed with the world, and find the physical trappings alluring. Evil loves when people defile and corrupt themselves, and our natural state of rebellion and selfishness ensures we always like to see how far we can push the envelope. Just my two cents.
This is awsome. For my Alevel qualification i illustrated dantes inferno on a huge scale in inks. Always found the chaotic scenes amazing and surprisingly hard to recreate in such an organic way. Truly masterpieces
These videos are so well written and detailed! I pray everyday and walk with the lord and hope I don’t get casted in this realm of misery, chaos, and sadness. There is no expiration date like we have on earth. In the eternal afterlife it lasts until the end of time and you’re stuck!
Honestly one of my favorite videos you've ever made
Great video again, thanks for your work. Personally I like the work from Carel Willink and Pyke Koch a lot, might be painters for a future video :)
Found your channel last night while I was stupid stoned and ended up watching a bunch of videos. These are so well done. Keep up the good work! Subbed :)
ghhh same
I just discovered your channel today and I'm already in love. Very unique content and I love your narration. You got yourself a new long time sub!
I really enjoyed this video thanks so much for creating it!
Love your content. I’ve learned to appreciate even the art I always found visually unappealing, simply because you’re so informative and so descriptive. But I did laugh out loud at “What is with that lobster?” 😂 Great video 👍
just about to say the same thing bout the lobster
Another incredible video!
Cheers Ken 😁
i could listen to you talk about paintings for hours
good job on the video as a whole and I'm fascinated by this kind of theme about versions of what hell would be like.
enjoy your analyses, been watching these since I found the Goya black paintings one. coincidentally I've also been reading paradise lost and the divine comedy and looking at some of the latter's medieval art, so this one is great, like weirdly perfect. mentioned it on an old video, but wanted to suggest nick blinko's work again. since I've seen a few of your outsider vids, he's a British outsider artist/musician with schizophrenia. he intentionally stops his medication when he writes/draws, uses ultra fine tip black pens seemingly able to draw in microscopic detail. and very into HP Lovecraft. his band, rudimentary peni, are still around, but their 1986 lp 'cacophony' is completely unique, and completely insane. all this assuming you haven't heard of him before. he has a book of artwork but it's very hard to find, out of print I think, but much of it exists online.
I loved this breakdown of Hell Art, as you put it. Excellent choice of works to display and truly, I appreciate your breakdown of elements of the panel and then the levity of some of the absolutely WILD inclusions that some of these artists placed in their paintings. Also, the Andrew Sales works were very interesting. I'll definitely be following up with some research of my own to see what else he has made!
Fantastic output my friend. Brilliant monologue.
Love your videos, just finished Bosch. Great work!
my favourite depiction of hell in any art form is a music video from Buckethead's 'Spokes for the Wheel of Torment' as it basically brings bosch's famous painting to life in the most surreal way i can imagine. the music, the animation, it never fails to amaze me in the most disturbing way possible and i encourage everyone to give it a watch, even if music isn't really your thing its quite a masterpiece when it comes to music videos and no musician could have done it better than Buckethead
i've heard that song so many times, but never watched the video. I just did on your rec. fucking awesome my person, thanks
I love you, ur videos are so entertaining
Im addicted to ur videos keep up the great work!
Amazing video! I love your wit and humor
So excited to watch this
Becoming one of my very favorite channels, thanks man! Keep exploring and I hope you continue to bring us along! I'm gonna rethink my life, and try to figure out how to best avoid the demon bird with the glass butt hole xD cheers!
Not sure how I stumbled upon this but I'm really glad I did. Wonderful video.
Found your channel from your video about Francisco Goya, I’m very intrigued by art and I’m glad I found your channel
I’m a huge fan of Jake and Dinos Chapman’s insanely intricate and detailed dioramas of hell featuring McDonald’s characters along with armies of nazis and skeletons. If you’ve never seen them, go check out some pictures. Truly nightmarish and amazing.
What exactly must be typed in google to find that image?
I think one of the most intense depictions of Hell is the one seen in DOOM Eternal. The amount of detail in those levels are insane.
I don’t think it’s terrible but I prefer the original Doom’s depictions. It’s dark, ominous, the levels aren’t over the top cartoon styles like I feel Eternals looked like sometimes. Overall the first painting this guy covered reminded me of the original Doom.
recently found a fascination with these! thanks for the video
REally enjoyed this video. It is extremely fascinating
I am very fascinated by Bosch's art as there are some very strange and seemingly incongruous looking objects in them, which I can't recall seeing in similar themes in other historic artwork. Have you ever covered the art of Frida Kahlo? I visited your web site, but I couldn't find anything on her.
Blind Dweller talking about all the neat hell junk- Lobster just vibin- Blind dweller: H O W D A R E Y O U-
Love videos like this. It's so refreshing. New subscribers 🙋♀️
Ah what a great video to watch right before falling asleep.
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Just remember, if you every think hazbin hotel or helluva boss is cringey, it’s was Dante’s fault lol
The best
I've watched this at least 2 to 3 times now. I love this art and the way you describe it. But one thing that sticks out to me about The Last Judgment by Fra Angelico, that you don't mention, is that on the "heaven" or redemption side is that the majority are rather humbly and similarly dressed. There a re a few with crowns or non-halo headdresses, but most have rather simple head coverings or styles. Whereas the "hell side" appears to have many more crowns and headdresses that are, by design, standing out more than their heavenly counterparts. Displaying that the arrogant and the false prophets are more likely to fall than the humble and meek.
Absolutely amazing paintings! ❤️💕🎨🖌️ Pretty accurate, I'd imagine. 🤔
I always lovw the backround music. It adda so much to your dialogue and the visuals.
Napoletano's painting is the closest I've seen to the sights of hell from a dream I once had. I dreamt a giant maze of old stonework, the joints glowing with fire that the floors and walls were a boiling heat. There were screams coming from them, the wailing of those trapped inside, unable to move. Others hung from glowing hot irons from the ceiling. These souls constantly writhed and screamed, but they couldn't break free. Most souls just walked through the maze. Some were tied together by shackles; most were just on their own. But there were others there, too: demons. They were huge against the humans, about twice or three times as tall, with feathery wings that could touch both walls. They were pretty like angels, but their eyes glowed with fire. Their shapes were muddled by clouds of smoke around them. These spirits carried spears and whips and would chase the souls around the maze, cornering and ripping them apart, sometimes with their bare teeth. The deeper you went into the hell from my dream, the more broken the space became. The walls and floors crumbled into dark pits. The pits were the scariest part; no sound came from them, just the faint whistling of wind. These deeper parts were often flooded with boiling water. These hot waves crashed against old stone. All in all, it was a pretty scary dream. Don't sin, kids.
As someone who's currently in the process of writing my own circles of hell, I have to say this is very inspiring.
@@mareanie5998 ?
@@mareanie5998 Bruh. First of all, using "Dr Bright" as my username does not necessarily entail everything I write is related to SCP. Hell, I don't even think I've written anything related to SCP in my entire life. Second of all, bold of you to refer to it as a "story". Third of all, there's a pretty big difference between "to" and "too", mate. Learn it.
@@purplehaze2358 what happened
@@balls4839 Don't remember to be honest.
I love that part of the last hellscape with the gate and the white light coming through it. It's stunning
Fantastic video. Wish I could watch it for the first time again.
Sometimes I wonder whether Bosch's hell was meant to be scary or humorous or both. It looks so surreal and goofy to modern viewers that it gets referenced in cartoons. I was raised to have a morbid phobia of hell (/recovering fundie) but weirdly enough I have never seen a _depiction_ of hell that I found truly intensely scary. I think it's the same principle as why you don't show the monster in a horror movie.
The mind can imagine far more frightening and awful ideas than can be conveyed through visual art. Though some things come pretty close I'd say. Personally my ideas of hell have nothing to do with demons or physical pain. One that's always really horrified me is just the idea of eternity and having your consciousness awake and aware but stuck somewhere for all eternity with no escape and not even suicide would be possible. That seems like one of the worst hells imaginable to me. I remember an example of this idea in a Black Mirror episode, a man's consciousness is stuck in a digital space where he experiences being electrocuted forever with no escape. That seems immensely cruel even for the worst person who ever lived.
Bosch's concept of hell utterly lies in the surreal. A saturation of understanding that where you are at is wrong, discordant, to the point thay it settles in as normality
I’m sure Bosch thought it very humorous for a pretty but naughty young maid to see her reflection in the backside of a demon.
What are you now? 🤥
@@seanpaolacci6842 Hmm how do you mean?
I love depictions of hell. Love it so much that I have Slayer's Reign in Blood album as a sleeve on my left arm. Metal albums and depictions of hell go hand in hand.
You just earned yourself a new subscriber! Excellent content!
Fantastic video and discussion on this topic
Great video! Always interesting seeing how different artists apporach this topic. The one that stuck with me was that one where hell is basically as an extremely boring office work, filled to the brim with bureaucracy bullshit, but I can't remember where I read that for the life of me... Terry Pratchett? CS Lewis? I don't know. More recently I loved the surrealist feeling of hell in Chainsawman, I hope it gets explored more.
10th Circle of Hell : Social Media
Love love love this video...thankyou ❤❤
Do a part 2 this was awesome!
Our world looks more and more like a Bosch painting. The woman in hell gazing into the butthole mirror may have been a prediction of Only Fans. Have you done a video about Hell Mouths?
When I was a youngster, my grandpa warned me to never go near a certain tree at our local cemetery. He called it a dead tree, he said never touch it or try to climb it, wish I had listened for once. I did touch it and I felt like I was hit by electric, my body seized up, screams and crying filled my ears and the most terrifying vision of hell in my mind. No idea how long I was stuck there but when I came to, I had a bloody nose and pissed my pants. Nobody would believe me, I was in and out hospitals and talking to doctors for years. Grandpa was upset with himself because he didn't explain the warning and I wish I had followed it. The visions aren't so bad these days, meditation and medicine help alot. Always wished I had the talent to draw or paint to get these images out my head.
Are you making this up about the tree ?
@Arturo Guerrero he's schizophrenic. He's commented this on several videos.
I'd love to go through your search history. I think we have some searches in common but perhaps I'd discover a thing or 2 as well Thanks as always for your videos ❤✌️
I enjoyed the artsits corners paintings. Very unique and beautiful pieces to observe
You want the best visual of hell? Play dantes inferno for ps3 or Xbox 360 and your mind will be blown. Very underrated game.
Best game ever.
@@meganreyes5111 as far as hell goes...yup agree.
I must say they had some weird ideas of my home
Tell me you at least spared the poor lobster
@@BlindDweller Oh i did He lives in the lava lakes around Forugudar's home he is about 201 meters long hes huge
Thanks for sharing this captivating video Loved it 😍
Great video. Very interested in this topic. John Martin is also one of my favorites
I wonder why is their so many videos of hell but when you search for heaven it's like it doesn't even exist like why do ppl keep painting pictures ab hell so much why not heaven
Because we are more worried about hell. We all believe in Christianity, in some slight ways to avoid falling into hell and if you disagree with that, then you’re lying to yourself.
And why do you think so many Europeans in the Middle Ages converted to Christianity when they got word of hell?
@@diobrando5549 Roman Catholicism was forcing Christians atheists and Muslims to convert under threat of death. Christians didn’t force their belief on people Roman Catholics did which isn’t even Catholicism
Paradise lost is one of my all time faves. Beautiful story
Beautiful and Informative Painting I love those🖤
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