In 1588 the Magistrature of Ghent commissioned Rafaël Coxie to paint The Last Judgement for the aldermen’s courtroom at the town hall in Ghent. It was meant to replace The Last Judgement by Cornelis van der Goes, a late fifteenth-century work that had been lost during the iconoclasm. In this aldermen’s court, where sentences were passed, it was traditional to hang up scenes of justice. These would remind the judges and the accused of God’s last judgement. Coxie’s portrayal is fairly traditional. Christ is seated on a cloud, surrounded by saints and angels; on the lower left the blessed kneel while on the right the damned are dragged into hell by satyrs and monsters. The life-size nudes at the bottom left of the panel are reminiscent of Michelangelo; the section set in heaven reminds us of Raphael. Rafaël was the son of Michael Coxie and was named after the Italian painter Raphael, whom Michael greatly admired. Father and son are exponents of the Italian trend in 16th-century Flemish painting.
| Artist |
Raphael Coxie
RKD
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| Title | The Last Judgement |
| Date | ca. 1588 - ca. 1589 |
| Period | 16th century |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | S-54 |
| Acquisition credit |
transfer
Stadhuis Ghent 1825 |
| Current whereabouts | Work on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/S-54 |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/6351/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300055874 religious symbolism AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
11D
Christ
Iconclass
11D3 Christ as adult Iconclass 11G angels Iconclass 11G21 angels singing, making music Iconclass 11H saints Iconclass 11HH female saints Iconclass 11I prophets, sibyls, evangelists, Doctors of the Church; persons ~ the Bible (not in biblical context) Iconclass 11I62(MOSES) Moses (not in biblical context); possible attributes: rays of light or horns on his head, rod, Tables of the Law Iconclass 11K devil(s) and demons Iconclass 11L211 the ten commandments represented together on stone tablets Iconclass 11Q751 (public) prayer Iconclass 11S11 heaven represented in the air, with clouds (in concentric circles) and light Iconclass 11T hell and purgatory Iconclass 11T2(+4) symbols of hell (+ devil(s)) Iconclass 11U Last Judgement Iconclass 11U1 Category 92880 Iconclass 11U21 resurrection of the dead ~ Last Judgement Iconclass 11U22 division of the blessed and the damned ~ Last Judgement Iconclass 11U3 symbols of Last Judgement Iconclass 26A clouds Iconclass 31A the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) Iconclass 31A231 standing figure Iconclass 31A2321 leaning forward Iconclass 31A234 squatting, crouching figure Iconclass 31A242 head turned sideways Iconclass 31A2511 arm raised upward Iconclass 31A252 postures and gestures of arms and hands in relation to each other Iconclass 31A255 postures and gestures of hand and fingers Iconclass 31A2551 postures and gestures of the hand Iconclass 31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 31AA the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) - AA - female human figure Iconclass 31AA2321 leaning forward - AA - female human figure Iconclass 31B62 morphology of facial expression Iconclass 31B6211 looking upwards Iconclass 31B6212 looking downwards Iconclass 31B6233 mouth wide open Iconclass 31D14 adult man Iconclass 31D15 adult woman Iconclass 44G law and jurisprudence Iconclass 44G(+53) law and jurisprudence (+ accusation) Iconclass 44G111 accusation (in court) Iconclass 44G112 judicial verdict Iconclass 44G121 court building Iconclass 44G13 magistracy, judges Iconclass 48C7352 horn, trumpet, cornet, trombone, tuba Iconclass |
| School / Style | Renaissance AAT |
| Description des plus fameux tableaux que l'on trouve dans les Eglises et autres Édifices, dans la ville de Gand / Pierre François Antoine de Goesin-Verhaeghe. - A Gand : Chez Pierre de Goesin, 1771 (p. 1) |
| Notice des tableaux du musée de la ville de Gand, situé au local de l'académie royale de dessin, sculpture, architecture, etc. - Gand : D.J. Vanderhaeghen-Hulin, 1846 (nr. 23) |
| Recherches sur les peintres gantois, des XIVe et XVe siècles : Indices / Edmond De Busscher. - Gand : L. Hebbelynck, 1859 (pp.193-372) |
| Rechtsgeding over een kunstwerk in de XVIe eeuw / Edmond De Busscher. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (p. 208-221) |
| Recherches sur les peintres et sculpteurs à Gand, au XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles / Edmond De Busscher. - Gand : E. De Busscher et Fils, 1866 (p. 7-10) |
| Recherches sur les peintres et sculpteurs à Gand, au XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles / Edmond De Busscher. - Gand : E. De Busscher et Fils, 1866 (p. 1-2) |
| Le Jugement Dernier : tableau de R. van Coxcie / Prosper Claeys. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (p. 105-108) |
| Catalogue du musée de peinture de la ville de Gand, 1900 / Louis Maeterlinck. - Gand : Imprimerie Victor Van Doosselaere, 1900 (nr. 50) |
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| Museum van Schoone Kunsten : Catalogus ; Oude Meesters, Schilderstukken, teekeningen, plaatsneden (met geschiedkundig overzicht) / Maurice Dupuis, Georges Charles Nicolas Marie Hulin de Loo, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Drukkerij F. De Vos, 1938 ; Gent : Stad Gent, 1938 (p. 40-41) |
| Gent / Jan Dhondt, Paul De Keyser. - Antwerpen : De Sikkel, 1947 (p. 295-296) |
| Art and architecture in Belgium : 1600 to 1800 / Horst Gerson, Englebert Hendrik Ter Kuile. - Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, 1960 (p. 48) |
| La peinture flamande au siècle de Bosch et Breughel / Léo Van Puyvelde. - Paris : Elsevier, 1962 (p. 417) |
| The Rafaël Coxie / Willy Laureyssens. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (p. 12) |
| De Vijd-Borlut fundatie en het Lam Gods retabel 1432-1797 / Elisabeth Dhanens. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (nr. 2, p. 20) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent / Robert Hoozee. - Brussel : Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, 1988 (p. 27, 29) |
| Gerechtigheidstaferelen voor schepenhuizen in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden in de 14de, 15de en 16de eeuw / Juliaan H.A. De Ridder. - Brussel : Paleis der Academiën, 1989 (jg. 51, nr. 45, p. 114-119, nr. 22) |
| Een verrijzenis van Raphaël van Coxie / Rudy Van Elslande. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (p. 119-133) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent = Museum of Fine Arts Ghent / Claudie De Guillebon, Jacques Ostier, Robert Hoozee, Monique Tahon-Vanroose. - Parijs : Association des Amis de "Musées 2000", 1989 (p. 63 (ill. 106)) |
| Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart / Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker. - Leipzig : Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, 1907-1950 (dl. 8, p. 25) |
| Het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : een keuze uit de mooiste werken / Patrick De Rynck. - Gent : Ludion, 2007 (p. 26-27 (ill.)) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. I, p. 70-71 (ill.)) |
| De Vlaamse schilderkunst ten tijde van Bosch en Breughel / Léo Van Puyvelde. - Hasselt : Heideland-Orbis, 1977 |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : De collectie (tentoonstelling vanaf 21 maart 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2021 |
| Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand : La Collection (exposition dès le 21 mars 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gand : Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand, 2021 |
| Catalogue d'une nombreuse et riche collection de tableaux & estampes des meilleurs maîtres flamands, italiens et autres qui se vendront publiquement ... à Bruxelles, à Anvers & à Gand ... : Catalogue des tableaux qui ont appartenu aux collèges des ci-devant Jésuites de Gand, Ipres, Courtray, Tournay & Bruges ; Ces tableaux sont déposés à Gand (+ Appendice) (vente Gand, Bruxelles, Anvers, 05 - 20.05.1777). - s.l. : s.n., 1777 |
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