Giotto ca. 1267 – 1337
The Last Judgement
fresco (10 × 8,40 m) — 1304-1305
Cappella degli Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua
This work is linked to Revelation 20:4
Art and the Bible - Revelation 20 - New Testament
Revelation 20 1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, 3 And cast him
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This is Giotto's largest work in the Arena Chapel.
The top part shows Heaven, with Jesus in the middle and the apostles at both sides. Jesus is casting the Last Judgment. The lower part shows the chosen, who will be escorted to Heaven, and the doomed, who will be cast into Hell. The archangels Michael and Raphael are holding the cross in the middle.
A curious addition is found at the bottom of the fresco: the commissioner of the Arena Chapel, Enrico Scrovegni, is portrayed as presenting a model of the chapel to the Virgin Mary.
It is possible that Dante, the great Renaissance poet and an acquaintance of Giotto's, was inspired by this depiction of Hell when he wrote Inferno.
The photo is a cut-out of this photo, made by Joergens.mi/Wikipedia and released under a Creative Commons license, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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