The Fall of the Damned – (Peter Paul Rubens) Previous Next


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Style: Baroque

Topic: Landscape Christianity Angels Religious Body Hell Nudes

Date: 1620

Size: 286 x 224 cm

Museum: Alte Pinakothek (Munich, Germany)

Technique: Oil On Canvas

The Fall of the Damned, conversely known as The Fall of the Rebel Angels is a monumental religious painting by Peter Paul Rubens. It features a jumble of the bodies of the damned, hurled into abyss by archangel Michael and accompanying angels. David Freedberg assessed this painting manner as the "most brilliant assemblages of lusciously naked flesh in Western art". In 1959 an art vandal threw an acid on the painting. According to him, he did not directly destroy the work, but the acid "relieves one from the work of destruction".

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