![]() ![]() All these individual punishments unfold against a terrible, dark, icy world with no escape.īosch's vision of Hell resembles a popular late medieval text, Visio Tondali, a trip by an Irish knight to the afterlife, mostly Hell, widely translated from its Latin original (a 1484 Dutch text printed in Den Bosch). ![]() Instead, squads of devils administer physical tortures of naked humans, often tormenting them with their own instruments of sin-hunters hunted, gluttons force-fed, and sex now shared with demons. Most area shows a characteristic Bosch Hell scene instead of bodies in resurrection. All balance has disappeared here very few elect souls are saved. Beyond outstretched trumpets, tiny soul figures ascend, borne up by angels. ![]() Heaven seems very distant, and Mary and John impotent as intercessors.Īt first, Bosch's Judgment seems lacking a heaven entirely, but it is small and barely visible, placed at the upper corner beyond Christ's right hand, a golden glow open beneath blue empyrean. While angels still blow trumpets around a frontal, central, red-robed Christ on a rainbow, the apostles kneel farther away from him, and the Virgin and St. Bosch's heavenly realm, significantly smaller, hovers a blue glow high above the land. ![]() A dark, bare setting with glowing fires along a high horizon fills this nightmarish vision, in a space linked closely between the center panel and right wing. Bosch's triptych radically alters that Judgment layout. ![]()
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