Last Judgment  

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1. The judgment day; apocalypse.

   Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day - Albert Camus

Artistic representations

Last Judgment (artistic representations), doom paintings

In art, the Last Judgment is a common theme in medieval and renaissance religious iconography. Like most early iconographic innovations, its origins stem from Byzantium. In Western Christianity, it is often the subject depicted on the central tympanum of medieval cathedrals and churches, or as the central section of a triptych, flanked by depictions of heaven and hell to the left and right, respectively (heaven being to the viewer's left, but to the Christ figure's right).

The most famous Renaissance depiction is Michelangelo Buonarroti's The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel. Included in this fresco is his self portrait, as St. Bartholomew's flayed skin.

A variety of creative works are listed below, chronologically:

• The Last Judgment, a tympanum by Giselbertus
• The Last Judgment (Angelico), a painting by Fra Angelico
• The Last Judgment (Rogier van der Weyden), a triptych by Rogier van der Weyden
• The Last Judgment (Memling), a triptych attributed to Hans Memling
• The Last Judgment (Bosch triptych), a triptych by Hieronymus Bosch
• The Last Judgment (Bosch triptych fragment), a triptych by Hieronymus Bosch
• The Last Judgment (Michelangelo), a mural by Michelangelo

See also

• Apocatastasis
• Atonement in Christianity
• Christian Eschatology
• Day of Atonement
• General judgment
• God the Father in Western art
• Intermediate state
• Lawsuits against God
• New World Order (conspiracy)
• Particular judgment
• Plan of Salvation Mormon view
• Pralay
• Ragnarök
• Revelation
• Second Coming
• Yama (Buddhism and Chinese mythology)