Why it matters
Christ judges the world beneath God the Father: the blessed rise on the left while the damned tumble into hell on the right. Rubens designed it and added the finishing touches, but between nine and nineteen assistants worked on the huge canvas.
Did you know?
- It was painted between 1614 and 1617.
- It was made for the Jesuit church at Neuburg an der Donau.
- It is called 'Great' to distinguish it from Rubens's Small Last Judgement of 1619.
Based on the Wikipedia article The Great Last Judgement (CC BY-SA 4.0).
