ROMANESQUE PAINTER, Italian
(active around 1080)

Last Judgment

c. 1080
Fresco
Sant'Angelo, Formis

The Last Judgment on the western wall of the church Sant'Angelo in Formis is painted in the Byzantine tradition and refer back to the formal ideal of Classical antiquity. Group compositions as defined by isocephaly, that is the arrangement heads all at the same level, is a specific characteristic of Ancient and Byzantine art.