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HellmouthMaster of Johannes Gielemans
This miniature (c.1445), from Honoré Bouvet’s L’Arbre des batailles, shows a hellmouth devouring the damned, demons dragging souls, and angels striving for salvation. While Bouvet’s treatise analyzed the ethics of war, illuminators expanded the theme into cosmic struggle. The vivid image fuses moral allegory and eschatology, warning of divine judgment amid earthly conflict.
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