The Fall of the Damned

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The Fall of the Damned is a dramatic Baroque painting by Peter Paul Rubens depicting a chaotic mass of sinners being hurled into hell.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Baroque painting ⓘ
painting ⓘ
artist Peter Paul Rubens ⓘ
artStyle dramatic chiaroscuro ⓘ
dynamic composition ⓘ
artworkType oil on canvas ⓘ
collection Alte Pinakothek collection ⓘ
colorPalette strong contrasts of light and dark ⓘ
completionDate circa 1622 ⓘ
countryOfOrigin Southern Netherlands ⓘ
creator Peter Paul Rubens ⓘ
creatorBirthName Peter Paul Rubens ⓘ
creatorNationality Flemish ⓘ
depictionBasedOn Book of Revelation ⓘ
Christian eschatology ⓘ
depicts Last Judgment ⓘ
linked to: The Last Judgment

angels ⓘ
demons ⓘ
falling bodies ⓘ
hell ⓘ
sinners ⓘ
genre history painting ⓘ
religious painting ⓘ
hasPart dark infernal abyss ⓘ
heavenly light at top ⓘ
monstrous demons ⓘ
writhing human figures ⓘ
inception circa 1620 ⓘ
influencedBy Counter-Reformation Catholicism ⓘ
Italian Baroque art ⓘ
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Munich ⓘ
locatedInTheCountry Germany ⓘ
location Alte Pinakothek ⓘ
materialUsed oil paint ⓘ
movement Baroque ⓘ
notableFor complex multi-figure composition ⓘ
dramatic foreshortening ⓘ
intense emotional expression ⓘ
originalLanguage Dutch ⓘ
originalLanguageTitle De val der verdoemden ⓘ
period early 17th century ⓘ
schoolOfArt Flemish Baroque ⓘ
surface canvas ⓘ
theme damnation ⓘ
divine judgment ⓘ
good and evil ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Peter Paul Rubens → notableWork → The Fall of the Damned ⓘ
The Maw → alsoKnownAs → the inescapable prison of the damned ⓘ
linked to: The Fall of the Damned
Last Judgment (Leiden) → depicts → the damned ⓘ
linked to: The Fall of the Damned