The Fall of the Damned

The Fall of the Damned, alternately known as The Fall of the Rebel Angels, is a monumental religious painting by Peter Paul Rubens dated around 1620. It depicts a jumble of the bodies of the damned, hurled into the abyss by archangel Michael and accompanying angels. In 1959, an art vandal threw acid on the painting. He said he did not directly destroy the work, as the acid "relieves one from the work of destruction."