Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Last Judgment at the end of the chapel Charon and his boat of damned souls. The Last Judgment was a traditional subject for large church frescos, but it was unusual to place it at the east end, over the altar. The traditional position was on the west wall, over the main doors at the back of a church, so that the congregation took this ...
Original file (626 × 1,020 pixels, file size: 122 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. ... The Last Judgment (Michelangelo)
The view with the wings folded of six panels with the donors kneeling in the far wings. The Beaune Altarpiece (or The Last Judgement) is a large polyptych c. 1443–1451 altarpiece by the Early Netherlandish artist Rogier van der Weyden, painted in oil on oak panels with parts later transferred to canvas.
Original file (2,256 × 1,690 pixels, file size: 1.85 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg) ... MICHELANGELO Buonarroti Last Judgment Fresco, 1370 x 1220 cm
The central panel shows Jesus sitting in judgment on the world, while St Michael the Archangel weighs souls: he sends the damned towards Hell (the sinner in St. Michael's right-hand scale pan is a donor portrait of Tommaso Portinari); the left hand panel shows the saved being guided into heaven by St Peter and the angels.
During the restoration work the entire pictorial cycle of The Last Judgment was photographed with specially designed equipment and all the information collected in a catalogue. All the restoration information along with reconstructed images of the frescos were stored and managed in the Thesaurus Florentinus computer system. [13] [14]
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate
In the commentary to A Vision of the Last Judgement, Blake claimed that the image originated in a particular vision he experienced that allowed him to see the host of Heaven praising God. The actual design of A Vision of the Last Judgement was created in 1808 as an expansion of his 1805 work The Day of Judgement.