Not sexy or funny but awesome
I visited the cathedral in Florence a few years ago. If you google it you'll see a huge dome. The dome is painted inside with religious images, just as you'd expect.

At the highest level, should your attention drift during prayers, you will see God and all His angels.

A bit lower down the dome brings you repectively to Purgatory and Hell. Here there are massive, detailed paintings of men and women being tortured by devils. Flesh is ripped and burned, limbs torn off, red-hot pokers inserted graphically into bum-holes and so on.

My favourite scene was of a naked man being held up by one leg and penetrated with a poker while a woman crouches on the ground, staring wide-eyed in fear and biting her nails.

So if you didn't pay attention in church, you'd get a terrifying reminder of the consequences of sin and impiety.

One of the very best things I've ever seen. Well worth a visit!
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Fri 2 Sep 2011, 8:26, 1 reply)

I went
to the Prado in Madrid a few years ago to see The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch. Detail in it is incredible (and unsettling).
Also there is "The Triumph of Death" by Bruegel, which is also worth seeing.
( social hand grenade I was a lurker before you were a lurker, Sun 4 Sep 2011, 19:26, closed)