[conservativeimage]

The painting is The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by John Martin, 1852.

[aruanan]

The painting is The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by John Martin, 1852.

The semi-silhouetting of the buildings in the distance against that bright sulfur yellow with the curtain of red that disappears like virago, makes it seem as though we are off-stage, just getting a peek into a scene of unimaginably intense action.

[aruanan]

It reminds me a little of a rotten apple and a skull, perhaps a hint of the innocence lost after the Fall, but it also looks like one of those images of a nuclear blast taken microseconds after detonation: