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The Condemned in Hell, fresco by Luca Signorelli, 1500–02; in the Chapel of San Brizio in the cathedral at Orvieto, Italy.

Hades and Persephone in the underworld, interior of a red-figure cup, Greek, from Vulci, a town of the ancient Etruscans, c. 430 bce; in the British Museum.

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Anastasis (Christ ascending from hell), apse fresco, 1320; in the Church of the Holy Saviour at the Monastery of the Chora (now the Kariye Museum), Istanbul.

Hell, open right panel of the triptych Garden of Earthly Delights, oil on wood by Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1505–10; in the Prado, Madrid.

Tall white statue of Kannon, the bodhisattva of compassion, stands behind a red arched bridge and trees in Takasaki, Japan.

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