Does Not Illustrate: Judgement Of The Dead

While the Sistine Chapel's depiction of the Last Judgement is indeed a painting of the last judgement, that isn't shown in this part of the painting. It just shows Jesus (who looks less like his traditional depiction), the Virgin Mary, and some of his Apostles. It doesn't show anyone being judged.

There are other Christian depictions of the Last Judgement that I think would work better:

• Stefan Lochner◊'s art from 1435
• Viktor Vasnetsov◊'s art from 1904 (I think a cropped version of the angel holding the scales would work)
• St. Vitus Cathedral◊ in Prague, 14th century

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I like 1.1 the most out of these suggestions.

I'd want to see them at wiki size before giving a firm vote.

Here are the pictures, all at size 350.

Lochner:

Vasnetsov (full picture):

Vasnetsov (cropped):

St. Vitus, Prague:

Edited by m-95 on Apr 3rd 2022 at 5:34:23 AM

I like the second to last (St. Michael with the scales). The scales to me imply judgment.

To be honest? That's my favorite too.

I agree, I like Vasnetsov's work piece the best.

Edited by good-morning on Apr 3rd 2022 at 7:49:09 AM

Alternative crop to show some more Higher Power and More Stakes (tm):

I don't love-love it, but to the concept pending other ideas. Although if we do use a depiction of I'd like to change the quote since same source/mythology (maybe all or part of it can be repurposed as a caption).

Edited by Synchronicity on Apr 3rd 2022 at 5:58:15 AM

Change the page quote or change the image caption? Because I think the page quote works fine.

It's better to not have the quote and pic not be from the same source (the "source" in this case being Christian...lore, for lack of a better term) to encourage diversity of sources and to not make the trope seem narrower than it is.

I like 9.

9

x5 Made a more clear version of 9

Edited by m-95 on Apr 4th 2022 at 9:36:23 AM

9 works.

Crowner's hooked.

Votes bump, two in green.

One more bump; still two in the green.

No objections here.

Done; locking up.