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Series Title: Dance of Death:

The Last Judgment

c. 1526

Hans Holbein the Younger

(German, active England and Switzerland, 1497/98–1543)
Culture
Germany
Medium
woodcut
Measurements
Sheet: 7 x 4.6 cm (2 3/4 x 1 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1929.170
Catalogue raisonné
Passavant vol.3.366.39
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
Print

Description

In this final, dramatic episode in Hans Holbein’s Dance of Death series Christ sits on high, surrounded by heavenly figures, poised to send the resurrected dead to their ultimate destinations of heaven or hell. The end of humanity’s time on Earth connects with its beginnings: bodies here are as naked and vulnerable as those of Adam and Eve at the Creation. Awakened from their graves and reanimated, the dead raise their hands beseechingly to Christ. Those judged to have lived virtuously will go to their resurrection, a sort of spiritual rebirth in heaven, while the sinful face eternal torment.
Vertically oriented print in black ink of a man seated on a floating orb printed with stars and a bisecting band with the symbols of the zodiac, at the base of which nude people gather, their backs to us and throwing their arms up towards the man on the orb. The man is flanked by rows of people surrounded by clouds and gestures to the side with his right hand, left palm facing out.

The Last Judgment

c. 1526

Hans Holbein the Younger

(German, active England and Switzerland, 1497/98–1543)
Germany

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