What does the last judgment represent The Last Judgement depicts the second coming of Christ, as well as God’s final and eternal judgement of all humanity. The saved are conducted to Heaven by angels. Our first piece is known as Gislebertus’ Last Judgment, a Romanesque sculpture made around 1130 CE at the Cathedral of Saint-Lazare, Autun, France. (This pride in ones art will be common in the Renaissance.) With a trumpet blast, the angels of the Last Judgment raise the dead, depicted as naked souls. Chapter Intro - Last Judgment - GISLEBERTUS - West Tympanum of Saint-Lazare, Autun, France - The Autun Last Judgment is one of the earliest examples of the rebirth of the art of monumental sculpture in the Middle Ages - One hallmark of the age art historians have dubbed Romanesque because of the extensive use of stone sculpture and stone vaulting in ecclesiastical architecture - Romanesque. Not long after the painting’s completion, the Council of Trent condemned nudity in religious art, decreeing that “all lasciviousness be avoided in such wise that figures shall not be painted or adorned with a beauty exciting to lust.” Clement’s successor Pope Pius IV complied with the tenet, and in 1565, the year after Michelangelo’s death, had the more controversial nudity painted over by Daniele da Volterra, earning the artist the nickname Il Braghetonne, “the breeches-maker.” Da Volterra also substantially repainted the figures of Saint Catherine and Saint Blaise, whose positions were considered unseemly. This tympanum is unique since we know the name of the sculptor -Gislebertus- who 'signed' his work with unusual medieval pride. The Last Judgment was commissioned for the Sistine Chapel by Pope Clement VII just a few days before his death. Michelangelo hadn’t even finished the fresco before controversy erupted over its unclothed figures. | (c) 2006, SCALA, Florence/ART RESOURCE, N.Y. Right: Marcello Venusti | Last Judgment | Museo e gallerie nazionali di Capodimonte | Images and original data provided by SCALA, Florence/ART RESOURCE, N.Y. Left: Michelangelo Buonarroti | Last Judgment | 1534-41 | Sistine Chapel, Vatican. Tympanum and lintel on the west portal, (St Lazare) Cathedral, Autun, Burgundy, France. Other articles where Last Judgment is discussed: Western sculpture: Romanesque: Burgundy, such as the spectral Last Judgment at Autun or the Pentecost at.
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