"Maybe this world is another planet's hell." - Aldous Huxley
A thread of the most terrifying depictions of hell ever painted 🧵
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1. The Garden of Earthly Delights (right panel) – Hieronymus Bosch (1515)
A nightmarish scene imagining the monstrosities of hell - including a bird-headed creature eating a naked man and a hollowed out giant with trees for limbs.
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2. The Last Judgment - Jan van Eyck (1440)
Death is depicted as a bat-like, skeletal figure, looming over the damned. Some of the damned can be identified as kings and members of the clergy by their headdresses.
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3. Pandemonium - John Martin (1841)
Based on a passage of John Milton's "Paradise Lost", in which "Pandemonium, the palace of Satan, rises suddenly built out of the deep."
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Curious to know, Saer @TheEdVerse, if some inspiration for Nessus was taken from here. #realmslore
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I'm afraid Gary (Gygax) is too dead to ask, now.
It wasn't for me, no. The gigantic arrow-straight flat buildings don't terrify me, they just make me think of tax time. ;}
Sep 7, 2023 · 3:13 PM UTC
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