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The fourth pillar with the Last JudgmentThe bottom left depicts the resurrection of the dead while the damned are represented on the bottom right. |
Left: the Resurrection of the dead; center and right: the damned in hellAn angel holds the damned back. Right: Satan is shown, his head circled by snakes while his hands are wrapped by the tails of two dragons as he tramples on the damned. | ||
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Center: the blessed guided into Paradise; right: the damned bound and led into hell by a hairy devilThe ridge below their feet seems to indicate the enclosure of hell with the demonic creature populating the area below them. |
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Details of the agonized faces of the damned |
Upper rows with the saved |
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Upper rows with the saved, the saints, the apostles, Mary and John, with Christ the Judge at the top center and trumpet-blowing angels at the top corners |
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