Cerberus? Eureka?




Pen

A marvellous collection of paintings, woodcuts and engravings depicting the (quite literal) Mouth/Jaws of Hell:

http://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/2008_ ... chive.html

Pen

Pen wrote:A marvellous collection of paintings, woodcuts and engravings depicting the (quite literal) Mouth/Jaws of Hell:

http://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/2008_ ... chive.html

Pen

Whow, that's impressive ... it's a pity, that he don't give much about his sources.

Incredible, once I thought I saw his face, but I thought ¨I was seeing ghosts¨... Brilliant pictures Pen!

One interesting Leviatan (1)
Gossuin de Metz. (s. XIII).


(1). (This is a monster in the Door of the Heaven).

Are you sure it is not hell's mouth beneath the sphere of elements.

I

In the Middle Age, the Leviatan became a common metaphor to refer to Hell.

Another example:

Conques (France, s. XI)

The Leviathan is related to the Dances of Death. Death is Hell which eat sinners.
(Dance of Death Woman, 1491)

that is to say... This:
Revelationes sanctae Birgittae. Edición de A. Koberger. Nürnberg, 1500.

Its the same idea of this:
Brueghel

The Tower and the Leviatan (lol, how scary )

The Hours of Catherine of Cleves

Created in Utrecht, The Netherlands, around 1440