Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Vita Christi (Life of Christ)
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1487-1490
MS M.894 fol. 216v

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Christ: Last Judgment -- In sky, Christ, nimbed, showing His wounds, wearing crown of thorns and loin cloth, draped in mantle, with arms raised in blessing and feet on transparent globe, in mandorla, sits on arc, with tau-cross behind Him, flanked by sword and lily. Flanking the Christ, Apostles, Virgin Mary, and John the Baptist, all nimbed, gesturing, sit on benches, with rainbow, enclosing angels, behind them. Below the Christ, within arc, two angels playing trumpets. On ground, men and women, nude, some partly draped, some gesturing toward the Christ, one standing in water, rise from graves.
Illustration of Matthew 24:30-32.