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Title 'as a shepherd (the Son of Man) separates the sheep from the goats' (Matthew 25:32): comprehensive representation of Last Judgement: Christ (with sword and lily), often surrounded by elders and sometimes accompanied by Mary and John the Baptist, appears in the sky with trumpeting angels (and sometimes angels holding the instruments of the Passion); after the resurrection of the dead the blessed are led to heaven by angels, and the damned are dragged into hell by devils
Type Illustration
Sizes 48x69
Material Woodcut
Colour Black
Artist Witte, Lieven de
Oldest appearance in Biblia Sacra 1538
Iconclass 73C825,11U1
Iconclass description 'as a shepherd (the Son of Man) separates the sheep from the goats' (Matthew 25:32): comprehensive representation of Last Judgement: Christ (with sword and lily), often surrounded by elders and sometimes accompanied by Mary and John the Baptist, appears in the sky with trumpeting angels (and sometimes angels holding the instruments of the Passion); after the resurrection of the dead the blessed are led to heaven by angels, and the damned are dragged into hell by devils
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