Eternal punishment posters & prints

The Torture of Prometheus, 1620-1648 Gioacchino Assereto

Prometheus Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes

Dante and Virgil in Hell, 1850. William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Illustration from Dante's 'Divine Comedy', Inferno, Canto XII: 55, 1921 Franz von (1866-1924) Bayros

The Last Judgement, 1721 Cornili (d.1731) Ulanov

Detail of Hell from The Garden of Earthly Delights Hieronymus Bosch

One of China's terrible methods of death punishment Underwood & Underwood

Figures impaled on a pole in Egypt as a punishment Charles Angot

The Punishment, 1850 Francis William Edmonds

A teacher reprimands his pupil Felix Edouard Vallotton

Prometheus bound to the rock Anonymous

Punishment with Sticks French School

A woman and child hand over their savings to the priest Felix Edouard Vallotton

Ixion on the wheel Anonymous

The Damned Romanian School

Old Bailey, Sessions House, London T White

Punishments of Convicts - Torture and Death by the Shower-Bath at Sing Sing Anonymous

Illustration from Dante's 'Divine Comedy', Inferno, Canto XXX: 22, 1921 Franz von (1866-1924) Bayros

Punishment with a Great Knout Anonymous

Chinese Punishment Anonymous

Tenkeisei, God of Heavenly Punishment (Part of the set of five hanging scrolls Extermination of Evil), 12th century Anonymous

God of Heavenly Punishment from Extermination of Evil hanging scroll Anonymous

Sent Out for Punishment Spare the Rod Spoil the Child Anonymous

Illustration from Dante's 'Divine Comedy', Inferno, XVIII: 55, 1921 Franz von (1866-1924) Bayros

Punishment, 1821 Louis Léopold Boilly

Punitio Tirannorum, from Allegories of the Christian Faith, from Christian and Profane Allegor… Hendrik Goltzius

The Doom of all Papers that Slander Bethnal Green Anonymous

Crimes and Punishments VIII, 765: Youll learn…, 1869 Félix Vallotton

St. Nicholas Delivers Three Unjustly Condemned Men from Death, 1888 Ilya Efimovich Repin

The Punishment of Niobe Tobias Verhaecht

The grim executioner taking the labled head to exhibit a warning Underwood & Underwood

The Garden of Earthly Delights, 1490-1500 Hieronymus Bosch

Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld, 1630s Jan Brueghel the younger

Administering Punishment Belgian School

Crimes and Punishments XVII, 774: You shall conjugate, 1871 Félix Vallotton

Penitent Mary Magdalene in a cave Lucas Vorsterman I