Hell
Description
The iconography of hell-a grim warning and arguably a form of behavior control-dates back to ancient times. This program surveys the landscape of damnation as it has been portrayed as Tartarus, Gehenna, Hell, Jahannam, Naraka, and modern-day apocalyptic horror. Representative works of art include the doom painting at Salisbury's Church of St. Thomas, Lorenzo Maitani's relief The Last Judgment on the facade of Orvieto Cathedral, Hieronymus Bosch's triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights, an illustration by William Blake of Dante's Inferno, Auguste Rodin's The Gates of Hell, Hadith illustrations, Japanese scrolls, and Hell, a diorama by Jake and Dinos Chapman populated by mutated and mutilated Nazis-destroyed, ironically, in a warehouse fire.
Runtime
24 min
Series
Subjects
Genre
Date of Publication
[2006], c2004
Database
Films on Demand
Direct Link
Similar Films
Hubert Robert, Project for the Disposition of the Grande Galerie—Masterworks (The Louvre, Paris)
Károly Ferenczy. October
Hinduism
Egypt. Secrets of the pharaohs
Constant Permeke, The Betrothed—Masterworks (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels)
Judging Clothing Workmanship
By Profession..an artist
Sunday morning. The art of the fake
The Statue of Liberty. A Film by Ken Burns
Sunday morning. Against his will?
Domestic Life
The United Church of Christ
2nd Verse. The Rebirth of Poetry
Closer to the Divine
Film Production