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Original fileQuéménéven (29) Chapelle Notre-Dame de Kergoat Baie 09 Vue 10
This stained glass panel depicts the interior of a monstrous, tooth-lined Hellmouth. A blue, feline-like demon on the left strikes a group of pale, panicked human figures with a spiked club. A red-faced devil watches from the upper right, while the central figures appear to be impaled or trapped by vertical blade-like structures amidst flames. The style uses heavy lead lines and expressive, contorted facial features to emphasize the agony of the damned.
This image reflects the late medieval and early modern preoccupation with the 'Hellmouth' iconographic tradition, where the entrance to Hell is visualized as the gaping maw of a leviathan or monstrous beast. It draws upon the visual language of the Last Judgment as popularized by mystery plays and moral literature of the period.
Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy (Inferno)
The imagery of visceral, physical torment in the afterlife parallels the literary descriptions found in Dante's Inferno.
Object
stained glass
glass (material)
Gothic
French
religious
Digital Source
Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
1549 × 2185 px
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