The Last Judgment from Les Sept Articles de la Foi by Jean Chappuis
Egregius Pictor Franciscus
1465–1475
- Medium
- Manuscript cutting in tempera and gold leaf, and letter bâtarde inscriptions in brownish-black ink, unruled, with decorated initial, on parchment
- Dimensions
- 23.7 × 17.2 cm (9 3/8 × 6 13/16 in.)
- Genre
- tempera
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
drawings (visual works)manuscriptprints and drawingmedievaltempera
About
In this powerful image, Christ elevates the chosen, assisted by angels, while demons drag the damned toward hell. Jean Chapuis's 14th-century poem The Seven Articles of Faith explores the moral implications of Christ's birth, baptism, death, descent into hell, resurrection, ascension, and second coming. Treated like a small panel painting rather than a decorated page, this image is characteristic of an accomplished illuminator called the Maitre François in its carefully rendered expressions and delicate use of minute stippling.
