Rogier van der Weyden Flemish, c. 1399 – 1464
The Last Judgement (Beaune Altarpiece), c. 1445–50
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Nicolas Rolin, chancellor of Burgundy, and his wife Guigone de Salins commissioned this polyptych from Rogier van der Weyden for the hospital they founded at Beaune. Christ sits on a rainbow above the archangel Michael, who weighs souls, while the dead rise and walk to the gate of heaven on one side and fall into hell on the other.
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Beside Christ's head float a lily for the saved and a sword for the damned, each with its Latin sentence written in the air, the blessed in white letters and the damned in black.
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