The Last Judgement

Public Domain

Artist(s) / maker(s)

Pieter van der Heyden (engravers (printmakers))
,
Pieter I Bruegel (after)
,
Hieronymus Cock (publisher)

Date

1558

Period

16th century

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
Christ pronounces the Last Judgement, seated on a rainbow. Next to him, a lily and a sword can be seen. The dead rise: on the left, the blessed are taken up into heaven; on the right, devils lead the wicked to the mouth of hell. Below the scene are two two-line verses in Latin and Dutch.

More about this work

Features
Artist(s) / maker(s) Pieter van der Heyden VIAF RKD Wikidata, Pieter I Bruegel VIAF RKD Wikidata, Hieronymus Cock VIAF RKD Wikidata
Type burin engraving
Category prints (visual works)
Material paper
Dimensions 224 x 290 mm
Location Work currently not on display
Object number 2014-PJ
Description
Subjects religious symbolism AAT, figures (representations)
Tags New Testament Iconclass, Christ Iconclass, angels Iconclass, angels singing, making music Iconclass, male sex; man Iconclass, sitting figure Iconclass, rainbow Iconclass, hacking and thrusting weapons: sword Iconclass, clarinet, bassoon, oboe, shawm Iconclass, flowers: lily Iconclass, Last Judgement (as one of the Four Last Things) Iconclass, Last Judgement Iconclass, 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 Iconclass, resurrection of the dead ~ Last Judgement Iconclass, division of the blessed and the damned ~ Last Judgement Iconclass, symbols of Last Judgement Iconclass, hell and purgatory Iconclass, symbols of hell (+ devil(s)) Iconclass, entrance of hell as monstrous mouth (of Leviathan) Iconclass, the damned souls, and their punishment Iconclass, devil(s) and demons Iconclass, activities of devil(s) Iconclass, devil or demons attacking mortals Iconclass, coffin Iconclass, ladder Iconclass, owls Iconclass, snakes Iconclass, fishes Iconclass, mis-shapen animals; monsters Iconclass, female sex; woman Iconclass, the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) Iconclass, the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) - AA - female human figure Iconclass, torch Iconclass, ships (in general) Iconclass, boat propelled by man or animal Iconclass, praying for the living and the dead ~ one of the (seven) spiritual Acts of Mercy Iconclass, Supplication; 'Supplicatione' (Ripa) Iconclass, saints Iconclass, female saints Iconclass, Death as devilish being Iconclass, art (+ copy, copying ~ work of art) Iconclass
Linked open data
Data PURL https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-PJ
IIIF manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11757/manifest.json
LIDO XML https://datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_lido&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:2014-PJ
Vlaamse Kunstcollectie - EN

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