Portuguese Master (Unknown), ‘Inferno’, 1510-20″The painting offers us a m

Portuguese Master (Unknown), ‘Inferno’, 1510-20″The painting offers us a medieval image of Hell, inventorying the eternal tortures in relation to the capital sins.  The figuration of Vanity by three naked women hanging inverted with her hair on fire, refers to the three graces of Apollo’s retinue. Lovers united by a tie, symbolizing lust, at the other end, seem to arise directly from Dante, showing the plurality of iconographic sources.”Source: http://www.museudearteantiga.pt/colecoes/pintura-portuguesa/o-inferno “The “Hell” occupies a place apart in the whole of Portuguese painting of the sixteenth century the iconography contained therein. In fact, do not know any other picture that represents an autonomous form the subject of Hell. An underground space with a circular opening at the top right of where the souls fall, the condemned suffer the penalties corresponding to each of the seven deadly sins. Seated on a throne, the king of demons presides over this terrifying scene armed with a huge horn and dressed as a Brazilian Indian. In the center, in a pot with boiling water, suffer the envious, especially a character - a Franciscan friar - to be the only figure dressed and with no signs of distress. Around the cauldron grouped other sins: Pride (the three women tied by the legs on a clay stove from where flames consume their hair), Avarice (the man who is forced to swallow coins), the Gula (the sinner whom a demon forces to drink wine in a bottle shaped pork), Ira (the shaven head man being pinged), Lust (in the group where, side by side, it is the adultery and homosexuality, the latter visually translated by the friar and the young man chained).This painting, whose affinity with the work of Gil Vicente has been marked by several historians, has been attributed to Jorge Afonso and / or the Master of Lourinhã. If there are scholars who point to the beginning of the century as the most likely date for its completion.” (translated)Source: http://www.matriznet.dgpc.pt/MatrizNet/Objectos/ObjectosConsultar.aspx?IdReg=248996 -- source link

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