Umbria: Orvieto Cathedral, Luca Signorelli fresco
Luca Signorelli: 'The Elect in Paradise', fresco cycle in the San Brizio Chapel of the Orvieto Cathedral.
Orvieto, Umbria, Italy.
The frescoes in the San Brizio Chapel are considered the most complex and most impressive work by the Italian renaissance painter Luca Signorelli (c. 1450-1523). He and his school spent two years (1499 and 1504) creating a series of frescoes concerning the Apocalypse and the Last Judgment, starting with the Preaching of the Antichrist, continuing with tumultuous episodes of the End of the World, finding a counterpart in the Resurrection of the Flesh. The fourth scene is a frightening depiction of the Damned taken to Hell and received by Demons. On the wall behind the altar, Signorelli depicts on the left side the Elect being led to Paradise and on the right side the Reprobates driven to Hell.
Umbria: Orvieto Cathedral, Luca Signorelli fresco
Luca Signorelli: 'The Elect in Paradise', fresco cycle in the San Brizio Chapel of the Orvieto Cathedral.
Orvieto, Umbria, Italy.
The frescoes in the San Brizio Chapel are considered the most complex and most impressive work by the Italian renaissance painter Luca Signorelli (c. 1450-1523). He and his school spent two years (1499 and 1504) creating a series of frescoes concerning the Apocalypse and the Last Judgment, starting with the Preaching of the Antichrist, continuing with tumultuous episodes of the End of the World, finding a counterpart in the Resurrection of the Flesh. The fourth scene is a frightening depiction of the Damned taken to Hell and received by Demons. On the wall behind the altar, Signorelli depicts on the left side the Elect being led to Paradise and on the right side the Reprobates driven to Hell.