The Fall of the Damned

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The Fall of the Damned is a dramatic Baroque painting by Peter Paul Rubens depicting a chaotic mass of sinners being hurled into hell.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Baroque painting
painting
artist Peter Paul Rubens
artStyle dramatic chiaroscuro
dynamic composition
artworkType oil on canvas
collection Alte Pinakothek, Munich
surface form: Alte Pinakothek collection
colorPalette strong contrasts of light and dark
completionDate circa 1622
countryOfOrigin Southern Netherlands
creator Peter Paul Rubens
creatorBirthName Peter Paul Rubens
creatorNationality Flemish
depictionBasedOn Book of Revelation
Christian eschatology
depicts The Last Judgment
surface form: Last Judgment

angels
demons
falling bodies
hell
sinners
genre history painting
religious painting
hasPart dark infernal abyss
heavenly light at top
monstrous demons
writhing human figures
inception circa 1620
influencedBy Counter-Reformation Catholicism
Italian Baroque art
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Munich
locatedInTheCountry Germany
location Alte Pinakothek, Munich
surface form: Alte Pinakothek
materialUsed oil paint
movement Baroque
notableFor complex multi-figure composition
dramatic foreshortening
intense emotional expression
originalLanguage Dutch
originalLanguageTitle Annihilation of the wicked
surface form: De val der verdoemden
period early 17th century
schoolOfArt Flemish Baroque
surface canvas
theme damnation
divine judgment
good and evil

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Peter Paul Rubens notableWork The Fall of the Damned
The Maw alsoKnownAs The Fall of the Damned
this entity surface form: the inescapable prison of the damned