Christ sits in judgement on a rainbow while St Michael, in gleaming armour, weighs souls below: the saved climb to a Gothic gate of heaven at left, the damned tumble into fire at right. Hans Memling painted it in Bruges for Angelo Tani, the Medici agent there. Bound for Florence, it was seized at sea by a Danzig privateer and never reached Italy.
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The kneeling soul in one pan of St Michael's scales has the face of the banker Tommaso Portinari, painted on a separate piece of foil and glued in later.
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