MONSTRANCE
The Last Judgment — Joos van Cleve
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The Last Judgment

Joos van Cleve (Netherlandish, Cleve ca. 1485–1540/41 Antwerp)
Date ca. 1525–30
Collection The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Subject Last Judgment
Season Ordinary Time
Master 3,644 px
License PD/CC0
Attribution The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · 40.174.1

The original, as its museum records it

Artist Joos van Cleve
Date ca. 1525–30
Medium Oil on wood
Dimensions 48 3/4 x 34 in. (123.8 x 86.4 cm)
Holding The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · 40.174.1

Every line above is reproduced from the holding institution’s own catalogue entry, which is linked. Where their title, date or attribution differs from ours, theirs is the one printed here.

The file this print is made from

Master 3,644 px on the long edge
Rights PD/CC0 — the photograph as well as the painting

Sizes

11×14 in$59
sheet 11×14 in · image 9.8×14 in · archival margin · 260 dpi
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About this painting

The Christ who judges the world was drawn from a pagan statue. The Met traces this figure to the Laocoon, the ancient marble of a man dying in the coils of sea-serpents, and the nudes below him to prints after Raphael: Antwerp built its Judgment out of Rome, arriving by paper. Heaven and earth are joined by nothing but two angels blowing trumpets. Christ blesses the saved at the lower left; at the right Michael drives the damned toward a hell burning in the distance.

Sources: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 'The Last Judgment', accession 40.174.1; read 2026-08-27.

And all nations shall be gathered together before him: and he shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats:

Matthew 25:32 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js

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Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 3,644 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.