Légende
Last Judgment, print, album page, Print is part of an album., after painting by Michelangelo, 1700 - 1800, printmaker, paper, etching, engraving, etching and engraving, pasted onto album page, height 316 mm x width 228 mm, The compiler pasted this print into the album as an illustration for: Pilkington, Matthew and Johann Heinrich Füssli. A dictionary of painters, from the revival of the art to the present period. 4 vols. London: John Crowder, 1805, vol. 1, p. 62., historical persons, portrait, self-portrait of painter, comprehensive representation of Last Judgment: Christ (with sword and lily), often surrounded by elders and sometimes accompanied by Mary and John the Baptist, appears in the sky with trumpeting angels (and sometimes angels holding the instruments of the Passion), after the resurrection of the dead the blessed are led to heaven by angels, and the damned are dragged into hell by devils, A detailed monochrome engraving fills the scene with numerous human figures arranged across clouds and a radiant central area, where a standing figure surrounded by light is encircled by other figures on clouds, some holding ladders and gesturing toward the center; angels and cherubs occupy the upper corners among clouds, carrying crosses and interacting with each other, while a small oval portrait sits at the very top between two arching cloud formations; the middle and lower areas are crowded with groups of figures in varied dynamic poses, some reclining, some reaching or supporting others, and several are depicted in small boats amid turbulent waves; instruments, drapery, and flowing cloth appear throughout, and the composition is densely packed with overlapping bodies, clouds, and rays of light that emanate from the central bright area.
Crédit
Photo12/Liszt Collection
Notre référence
LZT26B26_134
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
48.1Mo (6.6Mo) / 29.7cm x 40.6cm / 3502 x 4797 (300dpi)