The Fall of the Damned!

I chose Peter Paul Rebuns’s piece The Fall of the Damned as my favorite composition. He created this amazing, yet somewhat morbid painting in 1620, in Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Bavaria, Germany. This corresponds best to the thirty years war because of it’s religious element. The story behind the picture is that it was god’s decision or judgement rather to send guilty people to hell. I think this painting is not only visually fascinating, with very intriquet detail, but with intense meaning. In the painting you can actaully see the people falling from the light of heaven and being pulled, or sucked almost into the abyss.