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MEMLING, Hans: Last Judgment Triptych (central)

🖼 Last Judgment Triptych (central), 1467-71
Oil on wood
221 × 160 cm
Warsaw, Poland

Soaring figures populate a vast landscape divided between heavenly ascent and infernal descent, rendered in meticulous Flemish detail. Memling's triptych synthesizes medieval theology with Renaissance spatial complexity, establishing the Last Judgment as a monumental altarpiece that profoundly influenced Northern European religious art.

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