Last Judgment, anonymous, c. 1500

Title(s)

Last Judgment

Object type

• painting

Object number

SK-A-2588

Description

Het laatste oordeel. Christus zittend op de regenboog met links Maria en rechts Johannes de Doper. In de hemel engelen met de passiewerktuigen. Lager zitten de discipelen op wolken, boven de aarde waar de doden uit hun graven opstaan.

Artist

• painter: anonymous

Place

Westphalia

Dating

c. 1500

Physical features

oil on panel

Material

• panel
• oil paint (paint)

Measurements

height 149 cm × width 175 cm
depth 14.5 cm

What

• comprehensive representation of Last Judgement: Christ (with sword and lily), often surrounded by elders and sometimes accompanied by Mary and John the Baptist, appears in the sky with trumpeting angels (and sometimes angels holding the instruments of the Passion); after the resurrection of the dead the blessed are led to heaven by angels, and the damned are dragged into hell by devils

Credit line

• Gift of the heirs of C. Hoogendijk, The Hague

Acquisition

gift May-1912

Copyright

Public domain

• Cézanne en Van Gogh in het Rijksmseum voor moderne Kunst in Amsterdam: de collectie van Cornelis Hoogendijk (1866-1911)