Last Judgment (Vienna)
by Hieronymus BOSCH

While sin and folly occupy a prominent place in Bosch's art, their significance can be fully appreciated only within the context of a larger medieval theme, the Last Judgment. The preparation for this Final Day was one of the chief concerns of the medieval Church. In Bosch's days the terrors of the Final Reckoning were intensified by a general sense of its imminence. Nowhere, however, was this chronic anxiety of the age given more vivid expression than in Bosch's imposing Last Judgment triptych in Vienna, executed probably during his middle period.

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Preview Picture Data File Info Comment
Last Judgment Triptych
1504-08
Mixed technique on panel, 163 x 128 cm (central panel), 167 x 60 cm (each wing)
Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna

1400*853
True Color
220 Kb



Last Judgment Triptych (exterior view)
1504-08
Grisaille on panel
Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna

1100*1308
True Color
195 Kb



Last Judgment Triptych (central panel)
1504-08
Mixed technique on panel, 163 x 128 cm
Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna

1479*1901
True Color
390 Kb



Last Judgment Triptych (central panel)
1504-08
Mixed technique on panel, 163 x 128 cm
Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna

1100*1414
True Color
215 Kb



Last Judgment Triptych (detail)
1504-08
Mixed technique on panel
Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna

1000*1426
True Color
190 Kb



Last Judgment Triptych (detail)
1504-08
Mixed technique on panel
Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna

1000*1441
True Color
161 Kb



Last Judgment Triptych (left wing)
1504-08
Mixed technique on panel, 167 x 60 cm
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna

500*1525
True Color
142 Kb



Last Judgment Triptych (right wing)
1504-08
Mixed technique on panel, 167 x 60 cm
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna

500*1503
True Color
130 Kb



Last Judgment Triptych (left outer wing)
1504-08
Grisaille on panel, 167 x 60 cm
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna

500*1554
True Color
112 Kb



Last Judgment Triptych (detail)
1504-08
Mixed technique on panel
Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna

1200*1302
True Color
218 Kb



Last Judgment Triptych (right outer wing)
1504-08
Grisaille on panel, 167 x 60 cm
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna

500*1535
True Color
109 Kb




Summary of works by Bosch
Paintings
Early paintings | 7 Deadly Sins | Various panels
Garden of Earthly Delights | Haywain
Panels in Venice | Last Judgment | Various triptychs
Adoration of the Magi | Temptation of St Anthony
Graphics
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