ANALYSIS OF HELL DEPICTIONS
CEHENNEM YORUMLARININ ANALİZİ

Author : Itır TOKDEMİR ÖZÜDOĞRU
Number of pages : 299-321

Abstract

One of the main emotions, fear, makes people sensitive to dangers. As well as the now and future we live, it can also develop after death due to religious belief. This feeling, which cannot be controlled by logic and will, has an effect that makes sense and prudence. For this reason, they are considered as subjects in art and have been met with great interest by people. Thus fear began to take its place in art as a genre. One of the most important reasons of this interest and development can be thought to be the feeling of fear experienced by the way of art. In the works of religious subjects, the element of fear is practiced in almost every culture, mostly in the theme of hell. In the historical process, it is possible to encounter works showing that the punishment for doing evil is paid in the world. In the 1180s, there are early examples such as the Hortus Deliciarum, which is in the garden of pleasure and the monsters of Hieronymous Bosch (1450-1516). In the works of Ottoman miniature art, miniatures, especially depictions of hell under religious themes, include dragons, scorpions, and visuals that can be a different element of fear. There are also miniatures in which the sense of fear is expressed and visualized in the writing of the Apocalypse and in the writing of Ahval-i Kıyamet in which the hell is depicted with heaven. In this article, the miniatures of Ahval-i Kıyamet found in hell were examined in terms of similarities and differences with depictions of hell in western culture and in recent centuries.

Keywords

Fear, miniature, hell

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