Six year coma

[Dave Monroe]

Cf. Rogier Van Der Weyden, The Last Judgment Polyptych
(ca. 1450) ...

   "To either side of the central figures of Christ
and the archangel Michael, the composition is built up
on two levels. Above is a cloud of gold, on which are
seated the apostles, judges in the celestial tribunal,
as well as a pope, a bishop, a king, a monk and three
women. Below them is the earth, from which the
resurrected souls emerge, to go either to damnation or
to eternal bliss. The central panel is dominated by
the son of God, seated on a semi-circular rainbow....

[...]

   "The lower tier depicts the elect and the damned.
They are represented by two small groups of figures.
They too are naked and are portrayed on a smaller,
more human scale, than the saints above them. We see
them propelled inexorably towards their fate...."

http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/w/weyden/rogier/08beaune/00beaun1.html

http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/art/w/weyden/rogier/08beaune/00beaun1.jpg

http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/w/weyden/rogier/08beaune/index.html

And Hans Memling, The Last Judgment (1467-71) ...

"... this triptych is Memling's most monumental
composition and one of his plastically most
accomplished. A perfectly symmetrical, semi-circular
line of bodies runs through the continuous space of
all three panels, with the calm upward movement of the
Reception of the Righteous into Heaven balanced by the
turbulent Casting of the Damned into Hell on the
opposite side."

http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/m/memling/1early3/02last.html

http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/art/m/memling/1early3/02last.jpg

http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/m/memling/1early3/

And see on both/and ...

http://corneliusgross.tripod.com/contemporaries/contemporaries.htm

We had the Memling in town a while back ...

http://www.mam.org/exhibitions/major/story_ID_53.asp

--- Mark Wright AIA <mwaia at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Rainbow frames the catastrophe like a proscenium
> arch --- deluge is implicit. Flotsam becomes jetsam,
> and all is wreckage and waste.

Very interesting, very suggsetive, hopefully very
prouctive comment there, tahnks ...

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