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The Last Judgment

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Flemish Illuminator · 1410–1450

The Master of Guillebert de Mets was a prolific, anonymous, illuminator who worked in Flanders during a flourishing period of manuscript production. The Master's name derives from his illuminations in a manuscript of the *Decameron,* now in Paris, which was signed by the scribe Guillebert de Mets. The Master of Guillebert de Mets was trained in Paris or by Parisian illuminators who worked in Fland

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Date: about 1450–1455
Medium: Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink
Culture: Flemish
Department: Manuscripts
Institution: Getty Museum

The Penitential Psalms, a compilation of seven psalms united by the common theme of repentance, are introduced by a most distinctive two-page opening in this Flemish book of hours: a full-page miniature of the Last Judgment paired with a smaller miniature of King David in prayer. Christ sits on a double rainbow surrounded by Mary, Saint John the Baptist, a cardinal, a pope, two bishops, and a pair of trumpet blowing angels. Below, the twelve apostles look up while praying as the dead rise from their graves. The saved emerge from a tent in the border at the left, while the damned peer helplessly out of a tiny mouth of hell in the border at the right. The image of Christ seated in judgment provided a meditational focus for the recitation of the psalms, urging sinners to repent before death.

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