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| Keywords: Pieter Huys - The Last Judgment - Walters 37262.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Q18749501 Creator Pieter Huys en Around 1500 the Netherlander Hieronymus Bosch ca 1450-1516 created images of hell as a fantastical wasteland of torment that relied heavily on the hold that belief in monsters had on the imagination of his contemporaries Pieter Huys was prominent among his many imitators In this vision of the end of time Christ surrounded by angels and the apostles sits in the heavens as judge Below in a blasted landscape angels and demons battle for souls risen from the dead In the foreground the damned are subjected to an eternity of punishment fitted to their sins by monstrous demons-half-human half-animal At the lower left a glutton is force-fed food and drink so that his stomach is about to burst The brilliant crudely humorous mixing of the ordinary and the extra-ordinary humor brings home the message ca 1555 1560 Renaissance oil on panel cm 115 85 4 accession number 37 262 25412 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 place of origin Antwerp Belgium Walters Art Museum license 2D Renaissance paintings in the Walters Art Museum Pieter Huys Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Paintings of Last Judgment | ||||
