The Fall of the Damned
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Bavarian State Painting Collections, Munich
About the painting
The Fall of the Damned, alternately known as The Fall of the Rebel Angels, is a monumental religious painting by Peter Paul Rubens dated around 1620. It depicts a jumble of the bodies of the damned, hurled into the abyss by archangel Michael and accompanying angels.
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In 1959, an art vandal threw acid on the painting. He said he did not directly destroy the work, as the acid "relieves one from the work of destruction."
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Image: Peter Paul Rubens; Wikimedia Commons · public domain