Crucifixion The Last Judgement Analysis

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the world's largest encyclopedic art museums, located on the eastern side of the central park, in Manhattan. With more than 2 million works of art collection from around the globe, it also has collection from per-historic timeline. Each works of arts in here, organized by their own access codes, and placed into a specific gallery from a specific time period within their respective fields. The artwork that I chose to talk about today is a magnificent altarpiece, named “The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment” by artist Jan van Eyck. Created in the early Renaissance period, both The Crucifixion and The Last Judgment were done in two separate panels. The theme and the title of this diptych were based upon a true event of Christian Bible. In The Crucifixion part we see, Jesus's redemptive suffering and death by Crucifixion, representing critical aspects of Christian theology. While, The Last Judgment part …show more content…
It was executed in a miniature format; the panels are just 56.5 cm (22.2 in) high by 19.7 cm (7.8 in) wide. The left-panel consists of three horizontal planes. The upper side shows Jesus had been crucified with two other crucified bodies by his side. In the mid-ground, Soldiers and peoples are gathering and the lower side details, Christ's followers grieving in the foreground. Behind the scene artist gave us a spectacular view of city of Jerusalem in the distance. The right-wing also divided horizontally into three areas which represent, from top to bottom heaven, earth and hell. In the center-ground, the resurrected awaiting for their judgments and a representation of Christ in Majesty surrounded by saints, apostles, clergy in the upper section. Portions of the work here, contains Greek, Latin and Hebrew inscriptions. Lower section represent the underworld, where the doomed dwell forever while tortured and eaten by