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The San Brizio Chapel fresco cycle is a Renaissance mural program in Orvieto Cathedral, begun by Fra Angelico and completed principally by Luca Signorelli from 1499 onward. Signorelli's scenes address apocalyptic themes, including the preaching of the Antichrist, the resurrection of the dead, the da...
The Triumph of Death is part of a large 14th-century fresco cycle in the Camposanto Monumentale at Pisa. Generally attributed to Buonamico Buffalmacco, the composition contrasts aristocratic pleasure with corpses, suffering, hermits, angels, and demons to emphasize the suddenness of death and the fa...
Resurrection of the Flesh is part of Luca Signorelli's fresco cycle in the San Brizio Chapel of Orvieto Cathedral, painted around 1499-1504. It shows the dead emerging from the earth as skeletons and gradually regaining flesh in preparation for the Last Judgment. The crowded field of nude bodies, bo...
The Damned Cast into Hell is a fresco by Luca Signorelli in the San Brizio Chapel of Orvieto Cathedral. Painted as part of his Last Judgment cycle around the turn of the sixteenth century, it presents muscular nude bodies seized, carried, and tormented by brightly colored demons. The densely interlo...
The War Scroll is one of the Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in Cave 1 near Qumran and is conventionally identified as 1QM. Written in Hebrew, it presents an apocalyptic war between the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness, organized as a conflict lasting forty years. The text combines eschatological...
The Last Judgment in Pisa’s Camposanto Monumentale is part of a fourteenth-century fresco cycle generally attributed to the painter Buonamico Buffalmacco. Its densely arranged imagery separates the blessed from the damned and presents angels, demons, resurrection, judgment, and graphic punishments i...
The exterior frescoes of the Oratorio dei Disciplini in Clusone, near Bergamo, were completed in 1485 and are attributed to Giacomo Borlone de Buschis. Their subjects include the Triumph of Death, the Dance of Death, and the encounter of the living and the dead, combining moral instruction with vivi...
Taddeo di Bartolo's Last Judgment is a monumental fresco cycle painted around 1393 in the Collegiata of San Gimignano in Tuscany. It presents the final judgment of souls, with particularly elaborate scenes of Hell organized around punishments inflicted on the damned. The work is distinguished by its...
Carl Orff's final major work (premiered Salzburg 1973), subtitled 'A Play at the End of Time,' depicting universal judgment in his characteristic rhythm-driven, declamatory style.
Charles Gounod composed this grand oratorio in 1885 as a sequel to La Rédemption, exploring Christian themes of death, judgment, and eternal life to great international success.
