![]() He said that the acid “relieves one from the work of destruction”. This artwork has had such great impact that in 1959 Walter Menzl, a philosopher who wanted to promote his ideas about universal peace, threw acid on it. Here the bright light that hits the damned seems to underline their mortality and sins. Looking at this painting is like opening your eyes after a strong beam of light hits your sight. ![]() As a matter of fact, Rubens loved painting human bodies in the most suggestive and shocking way. Wikimedia Commons.ĭavid Freedberg, an art history professor at Columbia University, said that this painting is “the most brilliant assemblages of lusciously naked flesh in Western art”. Peter Paul Rubens, The fall of the damned, 1620, Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany.
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