Final Judgment

Christ Judge appears triumphant, seated on clouds and with the Virgin to his right. In the yellow glow that borders it, an angel with the cross and another with the column and the laurel wreath. On both sides and also on clouds, the saints and blessed, some of them (St. Catherine, St. Peter, St. Andrew, St. Stephen, St. Lawrence, all on the right) identifiable by their attributes. Underneath, some angels show the books of the Divine Law (“LEX DONI”) and others sound the trumpets of the Last Judgment. In the lower zone, the resurrection of the dead is represented with crude realism, with the chosen led to heaven and the damned dragged by devils to hell, a great black hole from which flames of fire emerge. Mª Elena Gómez-Moreno has pointed out that “the picture was probably painted in Italy, perhaps under the suggestion of Michelangelo, although its composition does not depend on that of Michelangelo in the Sistine”. Purchased in Madrid from Mr. José Sánchez Espejo. / Extracted from: A.A.V.V.: Instituto Gómez-Moreno (catalog). Granada, 1992, p. 118.Bibliography: Mª Elena Gómez-Moreno: Instituto Gómez-Moreno. Granada, 1982, nº 15. / A.A.V.V.: Carolus. Museum of Santa Cruz. Toledo, Sociedad Estatal para la Conmemoración de los Centenarios de Felipe II y Carlos V, 2001, p. 473.