The Harrowing of Hell발음듣기
The Harrowing of Hell
(piano music) Nancy: Okay, we're here at the Kalamazoo Institute of Art, and we're looking at an English alabaster that is the Harrowing of Hell from 1440 to 1470.발음듣기
If you look at it, it's such a dramatic moment in the history of art and the history of Christ's passion resurrection because it's the story of Christ's descent into Hell, and how he tugs Adam and Eve out of Hell before he, himself, goes up to Heaven, and it's in a moment of extraordinary kind of drama.발음듣기
And here, just to give an idea of what you have, it's quite a highly colored block of alabaster with an enormous Hellmouth on the right-hand side, and this is very popular in England.발음듣기
Particularly, it's the idea that Hell is a sort of gigantic monster with an enormous open mouth with teeth.발음듣기
And it's got what looks like a sort of snout and beady eyes and it's stretched right open, like some immense dinosaur, jaws yanked as far apart as possible, and out of this, this extraordinary mouth, a pouring, these rather innocent-looking people who are the, so to speak, the people who are being redeemed from the old testament,발음듣기
Paul: And Adam and Eve are right at the head and to the left-hand side of the image, gripping Adam by his wrist, I suppose, isn't it, really?발음듣기
Is a gigantic figure of Jesus with a bright blue mantel on lined in red, and a great staff, so he's like a sort of pilgrim on a journey, and he's journeyed all the way down into Hell.발음듣기
Paul: But he's like a sort of pilgrim with his scrip, and he's gripping at him and Eve is just behind Adam, and they're stark naked, and Adam is bearded, and they're all coming out of this enormous mouth and being pulled forward.발음듣기
Nancy: I think it is one of these tremendously dramatic moments that's really fabulous because it is salvation.발음듣기
Paul: Yes. salvation in action, where we don't really see salvation in action in quite the same way.발음듣기
Paul: And the interesting thing about it is that when he does this, he's standing sort of built upright, really, with a scroll coming out of his mouth.발음듣기
There must have been something written there that he's speaking, but he's not looking at Adam and Eve at all.발음듣기
He's looking, actually, out at us as we stand here, looking back at him. He's looking out at us.발음듣기
And then you start to notice all these other little details like at the top, sitting on the snout of the Hellmouth is a tiny little demon with cloven-hoof hands and he seems, is that a horn he's blowing on?발음듣기
Nancy: I think it is a horn, and I can't help but always make the apocalyptic connections, having been so steeped in apocalypse iconography.발음듣기
Nancy: But this looks to be more than that, as though there is some kind of unlocking process that has happened here.발음듣기
Paul: And that's very English because many centuries before this, in some of the great 12th-century representations of finality of Hell, you see a large angel.발음듣기
Nancy: That's right. possessing this enormous key, and it has this kind of finality to it and here it's all wrenched open, and everything is reversed.발음듣기
Everything comes out, and you wonder who the other figures are that are coming out because they're not all stark naked.발음듣기
They've got these terrific kind of contemporary hairdos, so he'd got a wonderful beard, which is kind of forked into two, and Christ is quite fashionable looking, and he's got his beard carefully done.발음듣기
It's this sort of slightly gray color that alabaster goes, but the rest of it, there's this sort of green sword with those little red and white flowers and gold at the top.발음듣기
Nancy: And I think that strange quality of the alabaster really comes out as it is just the skin.발음듣기
Nancy: Another thing I want to point out here is that someone has gauged out the eyes of the Hellmouth, or it has scored the eyes of the Hellmouth, and I wonder, also, if this score across the demon's waist is also an intentional ...발음듣기
It's a sort of heroic moment, really, of triumph in this way, which is so essential to the Christian message, isn't it?발음듣기
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