Buonamico Buffalmacco IX – The Last Judgment
The huge monstrous Lucifer dominates the interior of the mountain of hell. Lucifer, a three-headed giant, devours sinners and then excretes them (Inferno, XXXIV, V. 28) in a subterranean world filled with fire and pain. All around him, ape-like demons torment the souls placed in circles: he greedy, the gluttonous, the violent, the lustful. Like the cells of an immense beehive, they emanate from the monstrous central figure which was “cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him” by God (Apocalypse 12: 9).
Source: Museum Notice
Buffalmacco’s mural painting
Buonamico Buffalmacco IX – The Last Judgment
The huge monstrous Lucifer dominates the interior of the mountain of hell. Lucifer, a three-headed giant, devours sinners and then excretes them (Inferno, XXXIV, V. 28) in a subterranean world filled with fire and pain. All around him, ape-like demons torment the souls placed in circles: he greedy, the gluttonous, the violent, the lustful. Like the cells of an immense beehive, they emanate from the monstrous central figure which was “cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him” by God (Apocalypse 12: 9).
Source: Museum Notice
Buffalmacco’s mural painting