WEYDEN, Rogier van der
(b. 1400, Tournai, d. 1464, Bruxelles)

The Last Judgment (detail)

1446-52
Oil on wood
Musée de l'Hôtel-Dieu, Beaune

St Michael, prince of the heavenly hosts is pictured as young, because he is immortal and as handsome, because he is the embodiment of divine justice.