The Last Judgement

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about 1845-1860 technique: painting Artist: John Ellis Troughton Church of St John the Baptist, Penymynydd, Flintshire chancel arch Just as other murals in the church suggest the influence of Johann Friedrich Overbeck, this scene demonstrates his knowledge of another German painter of the first half of the nineteenth century: the figure of Christ closely matches the one by Peter Cornelius (1783-1867) in his fresco of the Last Judgement in the Ludwigskirche, Munich.  (ObjectID=54 ImageID=152) Original File Name=_MG_1341.jpg

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• comprehensive representation of Last Judgement: Christ, often surrounded by elders and sometimes accompanied by Mary and John the Baptist, appears in the sky with trumpeting angels  [1 Thessalonians 4:17; Matthew 24:30-31; Luke 21:27; Revelation 4:2-3]

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales