The Last Judgment (Beaune Altarpiece)
Rogier van der Weyden · 1443
Why it's great
The archangel Michael weighs souls in the center as people rise from their graves and are sent up to heaven or down to hell. Rogier van der Weyden painted this huge altarpiece for a hospital in Beaune, France, in 1443.
Where to see it
📍 Hospices de BeauneBeaune, France
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Rogier van der Weyden was a Flemish painter born in Tournai in about 1399. He worked in Brussels and became one of the most admired painters of Northern Europe for pictures that show deep feeling and realistic tears. He died in 1464.
