#hellscape

[politijohn]

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Pandemonium (1841)

— by John Martin

[charnel-grounds]

Johfra Bosschart (1919–1998)

Dante’s Inferno — Canto Primo, 1947

[ducissatenebrarum]

"Hell-Fantasy (Sibyl and Aeneas in the underworld)" by the 16th- and 17th-century Dutch painter Jacob Isaacsz. van Swanenburg (Prisma / Alamy)

Before the term “dumpster fire” and the fictional weather event known as a shitstorm raged within our hearts and minds, there was the hellscape.

Before exploding into the common vernacular in the 2010s, the term flickered into existence in the 20th century to describe the horrors of the world wars. The word blips up into usage again in the middle of the century to retroactively categorize the paintings of Jan van Eyck and Hieronymous Bosch, and to visualize World War II and Vietnam. The word itself is a portmanteau coming to us from the world of painting: the Dutch artists of the 1600s began to paint landscapes—extensive views of the natural scenery. Scape—from the Dutch suffix -scap, denoting “condition,”

[penandinkprincess]

"designed with a narrower foot bed to better fit women-"

BITES YOU BITES YOU BITES YOU BITES YOU

[proprietorofvoid]

[zelphafrost]