The Last Judgment
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This panel's floor is a corpse. Michael's feet rest on a skeleton that stretches its limbs and wings between heaven and hell; from its belly the damned are ejected to demons. Its wings are lettered CHAOS MAGNVM and VMBRA MORTIS: great chasm, shadow of death.
No biblical text joins those two phrases. Miyako Sugiyama traces both to Bernard of Clairvaux's fourth sermon for All Saints. Infrared found MORO or MORS on its forehead; Dagmar Eichberger reads the skeleton as the second, the forever death.
The frame quotes the Apocalypse: death gave up its dead. Here death is the floor.
Sources: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, object page, The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, Jan van Eyck, acc. 33.92ab · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API record for object 436282 · Miyako Sugiyama, 'Jan van Eyck's New York Diptych: A New Reading on the Skeleton of the Great Chasm', Arts 11, no. 1 (2022): 4 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 'Unlocking the Mysteries of Two Jan van Eyck Frames, Part Four: What Does the Text Mean?', Met Perspectives
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
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 12,276 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.