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to a Sienese painter, perhaps Pietro Lorenzetti.—C. & C., Italy, i. 447.

Last Judgement, Rubens, Munich Gallery.

By Rubens, Munich Gallery; canvas, H. 18 ft. 9 in. × 14 ft. 3 in. Above, the three persons of the Trinity in clouds, at the top of the composition the Father, beneath him the Holy Ghost, and beneath it Christ, half enveloped in a red mantle, with the Virgin, in a white robe, inclining before him; near them the apostles, the patriarchs, and prophets, seated upon clouds; angels sound trumpets, and Michael, with thunder-*bolts in his hands, stands at the feet of Christ; below, on one side the elect are rising, on the other the damned are being cast down. Among the elect is Helena Forman. Rubens's largest picture. Painted in 1617 for Church at Neuberg. Sketch in Dresden Gallery. Engraved by Visscher; Ch. Hess.—Riegel, Beiträge, 287; Larousse, ix. 1081.

By Luca Signorelli, Cathedral of Orvieto; fresco, one of a series illustrative of the end of the world.—D'Agincourt, Arts au moyen Age, Peinture, Pl. 156; Larousse, ix. 1080.

By Tintoretto, S. M. dell Orto, Venice; canvas, H. 60 ft. × 30 ft. On right wall of chancel. A grandiose and colossal work. Painted about 1546. Ruskin says: "By Tintoret only has this unimaginable event been grappled with in its verity; not typically nor symbolically, but as they may see it who shall not sleep, but be changed."—Ruskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 317; do., Mod. Painters, ii. 177; Ridolfi, Marav., ii. 184; Zanotto, 327.

By Roger van der Weyden, Hospital of Beaune, France; H. 7 ft. 4 in. × 4 ft. 4 in. Altarpiece in nine compartments, with painted shutters. The most comprehensive example of the master extant. Painted in 1443-47 for the Burgundian Chancellor Rollin, whose kneeling portrait, with that of his wife, is on the outside of the shutter. Illustration in Kugler.—Kugler (Crowe), i. 81; Larousse, ix. 1081; Förster, x.


LAST MUSTER, Hubert Herkomer, Holloway Institute, Egham. The last act in the drama of war. A quiet Sunday service in the chapel of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, one old man, the principal figure, evidently at his last muster; in background, the veterans of war at rest, with tattered banners overhead. Royal Academy, 1875.—L'Art (1875), iii. 252.


LAST PRAYER, Jean Léon Gérôme. See Christian Martyrs.


LAST REBELS, Benjamin-Constant, Luxembourg Museum; canvas, H. 5 ft. 8 in. × 11 ft. 4 in. The principal chiefs of the re-