For example, Plato's Myth of Er depicts disembodied souls being sent underground to be punished after death.

Hio's 19th-century cross is intricately carved from its base, depicting souls in purgatory, to its top, which tells the story of the descent from the Cross.

With his head tilted back, and arms and legs trailing limply, Hasson continued his climb, his posture an unconscious echo of the one in which mediaeval artists depicted human souls ascending to heaven.

In depicting tormented souls in hell, there are frequent glimpses of nude male and female actors (including the first male frontal scenes).

Thus far, the Grand Guignol aspects of the story, though they go much further; among them Vienna's use of faked negatives to depict souls rising from the victims' bodies (especially appealing to his patron, a spiritist as well as killer).

Called "photo-surreal death journeys" in the film's production notes, some of these images depict souls squirming in a psychedelic purgatory.

To present the afterlife, Williams used scenes from a 1911 Italian film called L'Inferno that depicted souls entering Heaven.

While Mr. Dafoe insists that he doesn't set out to depict tortured souls ("If I did," he says, "I'd be self-conscious.

It contains a sculpture of Our Lady of the Rosary and paintings that depicts souls burning in Hell, both of which date to the 17th century.

Alan Bennett's comedies may be crowd-pleasers, but they are subversive ones, depicting lost souls who seem to emblemize an unhappy England that cannot diagnose, let alone cure, its ills.