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The Mercers The Last Judgement
2009Much of the York Last Judgement is derived directly from Christ’s revelation of the final eschatological mysteries in the twenty-fifth chapter of St Matthew’s gospel. It successfully preserves the solemn grandeur of the gospel’s language in its dialogue, and reflects the stark symmetry...
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Erotic Spirituality in Blake’s Last Judgement
2013In 1808, William Blake painted a Vision of the Last Judgement (Figure 8.1), a watercolour that depicts Jesus shining above and the harlot (called Babylon) glowing below a womblike composition. (The painting is known as the Petworth Last Judgement because it belongs to Petworth House.) Scholars and students comment upon its erotic imagery; in the most ...
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The Critical Reception of Michelangelo's ‘The Last Judgement': The Theological Context
Reformation & Renaissance Review, 2005AbstractConsidered here will be the question of how the hostility of the clerical elite in sixteenth-century Italy to Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ‘Last Judgment’ may be explained. The problem arose from the many nude figures that the fresco contained. Why was nudity in Church so unpopular with the clerical elite in 1541 and for sixty years afterwards,
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The Last Judgement in Medieval Latin Model Sermons
2013The article examines specimens from five Latin sermon collections that were widely used as models for sermon composition in the later Middle Ages. Four of the collections were studied in incunable editions. One of the results is that the only day of the eclesiastical year on which one finds a more or less regular discussion of the Last Judgement is the
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