(b. ca. 1450, 's-Hertogenbosch, d. 1516, 's-Hertogenbosch)
Hell: Fall of the Damned
1500-04
Oil on panel, 86,5 x 39,5 cm
Palazzo Ducale, Venice
The ascent of the blessed into Heaven is balanced in the third panel by the descent of the damned into the pit of Hell. The damned hurtle past in the darkness, seized upon by devils and scorched by Hellfire spitting through fissures in the rocks.
