The last judgement

Vrelant, Guillaume (active from 1449, died 1481) (attributed to)


Item type:
miniature
Date of creation:
15th century
Technique / Medium:
tempera on parchment
Place of creation:
Flanders
School:
Flemish

    Item location

  • Museo Civico d'Arte Antica (Palazzo Madama, Torino)
    [Museum inv. no.: 449/M (Book of Hours)]f. 121v

Description

In the upper part of the image, Christ is sitting on a rainbow with two angel trumpeters; in the lower part, dead men rising again from their graves and a naked man entering into a castle.

People as subjects

Jesus Christ

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Trumpet [4446]

Bibliographic references

Santarelli, Cristina. “Iconografia musicale nei codici miniati delle biblioteche torinesi”, Miscellanea di studi (Istituto per i beni musicali in Piemonte) 6 (2006) 25-45.

RIdIM record id

3287