The mouth of Hell, closed by an archangel, is part of the Winchester Psalter, created around 1150.
The mouth of Hell is the entrance to hell, represented as the open mouth of a huge monster. This image appears for the first time in Anglo-Saxon art and then spreads throughout Europe. It is very common in the representations of the Last Judgment and the torments of Hell 'until the end of the Middle Ages. It was sometimes used during the Renaissance and also later. He enjoyed a kind of rebirth after the Protestant Reformation, in controversial and popular graphic impressions, where figures from the visible side are shown disappearing in the mouth. A notable late appearance in both versions of a painting by El Greco from around 1578.
