The representation of punishment in the

medieval frescoes of the Last Judgement

By Elena Falletti (©)
Carlo Cattaneo University, Italy
 The Judgment at the Great White
Throne
(Revelation 20:11–15, King James’ Bible)

11  And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth
and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
12  And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were
opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead
were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to
their works.
13  And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up
the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their
works.
14  And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
15  And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of
fire.
Giotto di Bondone & Dante Alighieri
Giovanni Canavesio and his landscape
Psychostasis
Michelangelo Buonarroti and his influence
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 Pictures’ sources
● Marcovaldo,https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/
5b/Coppo_di_marcovaldo_%28attr.%29%2C_inferno
%2C_dal_1225%2C_05.JPG/800px-Coppo_di_marcovaldo_%28attr.
%29%2C_inferno%2C_dal_1225%2C_05.JPG
● Winter Landscape of Notre-Dame-Des-Fontaines: https://scontent-mxp1-
1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/26952444_1314889235323584_214387395701194183_o.jpg?
oh=fbcb07c80dd7e6ebd6080f0ce591fd19&oe=5B069011
● Giovanni Canavesio,
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/La_Brigue_-_Chapelle_Notre-D
ame-des-Fontaines_-_Fresque_du_Jugement_dernier_-2.JPG

● Jan Van Eyck,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucifixion_and_Last_Judgement_diptych
#/media/File:Jan_van_Eyck_Diptych_Crucifixion_Right_Detail_1.jpg
● Soleto’s Last Judgment,
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0tJJUzUMR2A/VczIzlMEerI/AAAAAAAALXU/
QwHfdALLdVk/s1600/Giudizio.jpg
● https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/La_Brigue_-_Chapelle_Notre-D
ame-des-Fontaines_-_Fresque_du_Jugement_dernier_-10.JPG
● https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/La_Brigue_-_Chapelle_Notre-Da
me-des-Fontaines_-_Fresque_du_Jugement_dernier_-12.JPG
● Michelangelo’s Last Judgment:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Michelangelo_Buonarroti_-_Il_Giud
izio_Universale.jpg

● Buonamico Buffalmacco, ● Michelangelo’s Last Judgmenet detail

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Pisa_-_Campos https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Michelangelo%2C_giudizio_univer
sale%2C_dettagli_51_inferno.jpg
anto%2C_affresco_Inferno.JPG
● Vasari and Zuccari’s Last Judgment
● Botticelli’s version of Buffalmacco’s Inferno, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:03_2015_Giudizio_Universale-Cristo-Giorgio
http://www.britishmuseum.org/collectionimages/AN00029/AN00029362_ _Vasari-Federico_Zuccari-Cupola-Santa_Maria_del_Fiore_(Firenze)_Photo_Paolo_Villa_
001_l.jpg FOTO9275bis.JPG
,
● Ramazzani’s Last
Judgmenthttp://www.corsodireligione.it/bibbiaspecial/apocalittica/immagini/giudiziouniver
● Giotto’s Scrovegni Chapel: sale.jpg
http://www.museionline.info/images/gallerie/scrovegni/Interno.jpg
● Bastianino’s Last Judgment:
● Giotto’s Last Judgment: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Bastianino_Giudizio_Unive
rsale_cattedrale_Ferrara.JPG
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Last-judgment-sc
rovegni-chapel-giotto-1306.jpg ● Carlo Carra’s Last Judgment: https://www.wikiart.org/en/carlo-carra/giudizio-universale-
1938
● Giotto’s Inferno:
http://www.fmboschetto.it/didattica/Dante_e_la_scienza/Inferno_Giotto.
jpg