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The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things by Hieronymus Bosch, 1500
Museo del Prado · wikidata.org
Public domain
This started life, from what's recorded, as a tabletop rather than a wall hanging — you were meant to look down into it like a dinner plate. Whether it's actually by Bosch himself or a workshop follower has been argued over for more than a century.
Erisava: Does a painting like this actually change how anyone behaves?
The Barque of Dante by Eugène Delacroix, 1822
Department of Paintings of the Louvre · wikidata.org
Public domain
The scene comes straight out of Dante — the poet being rowed across a river in hell, steadied by his old Roman guide, while the drowned try to climb aboard. From what I've read it was the first big thing he ever showed in public, and it more or less made his name on the spot.
Erisava: The skin looks wetter than the water it's actually in.
Crucifixion and Last Judgement diptych by Jan van Eyck, 1437
Metropolitan Museum of Art · wikidata.org
Public domain
The source calls this 'miniature format' — each panel's only about the size of a large notebook, probably made so someone could pray in front of it at home instead of in a church.
Erisava: Whoever paid for this wanted every inch covered — must've cost a fortune.
The Fall of the Damned by Peter Paul Rubens, 1621
Bavarian State Painting Collections · wikidata.org
Public domain
This one used to go by another name too — 'The Fall of the Rebel Angels.' What's happening is the archangel Michael and his angels hurling a crowd of the damned down into the abyss. Apparently it was painted as an altarpiece, which feels like a lot to put behind a church service.
Erisava: It took me a while to tell who's falling and who's still trying to climb up.