MEMLING, Hans
(b. ca. 1440, Seligenstadt, d. 1494, Bruges)

Last Judgment

1467-71
Oil on wood, 223 x 72 cm
Muzeum Narodowe, Gdansk

After weighing and jjudgment, the majority of the resurrected are herded towards hell by black, hybrid, zoomorphic demons, who carry a variety of weapons and red-hot instruments of torture. Hell takes the form of a volcanic, mountainous region.