# Hell from the Four Last Things [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [STAMMEL, Josef Thaddäus]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Bronzed wood, height c. 250 cm ## Commentary Hell from the Four Last Things c. 1760 Bronzed wood, height c. 250 cm Collegiate Library, Admont The artist's extraordinarily expressive figures in the collegiate library, in which local stylistic traditions are combined with formal concepts of the Italian Baroque, are based on allegories of transitoriness and motifs of Vanity. The allegorical figures representing the "Four Last Things," including the Hell, seriously admonished the visitor to the library to be mindful of the earthly power of death and to put the books at the service of future spiritual salvation. ## Related artworks - [Death from the Four Last Things]() - [Interior view]() - [Interior view]() - [Interior view]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()