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MEMLING, Hans: Last Judgment

🖼 Last Judgment, 1467-71
Oil on wood
223 × 72 cm
Warsaw, Poland

Intricate detail and luminous oil paint reveal a cosmic vision: Christ presides over ascending souls and descending damned arranged in concentric circles. Memling's monumental altarpiece synthesized Flemish precision with Italian Renaissance scale, becoming the definitive Northern European interpretation of divine judgment.

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E. H. Gombrich
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