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To: ArrogantBustard

Where is that from? I've never seen it before.


44 posted on 09/12/2006 12:48:01 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: sageb1

It's a detail from a frescoe painted in some moderately obscure, but very old Catholic Church in Italy. The whole frescoe depicts various unfortunates, whom the artist believed to have been damned, being subjected to various tortures in Hell. While amusing, such depiction is theologically problematic. The Church canonizes Saints, but does not proclaim that any specific person is actually in Hell (although she most definitely does teach that Hell is populated).


45 posted on 09/12/2006 12:51:49 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: sageb1

Here's a slightly larger detail. The artist seems to have been one Giovanni da Modena, the painting is of the Last Judgement.

50 posted on 09/12/2006 1:03:24 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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