Three of Christianity’s Seven Vices or Deadly Sins personified and with manicules (hands with pointing index fingers). Part of an early 1300s Last Judgement fresco in a Romanesque church, the Chiesa di Santa Maria del Tiglio, built in the 1100s beside Lake Como at Gravedona, Lombardy, Italy.
Gravedona, Lake Como, Lombardy, Italy: three of Christianity’s Seven Vices or Deadly Sins personified and indicated by manicules (hands with pointing index fingers) in this faded section of a band of 14th century fresco art, part of a Universal Judgement or Last / Final Judgement in the Chiesa di Santa Maria del Tiglio, a 12th century Romanesque former baptistery on the northwest shores of the Lago di Como. The Universal Judgement or Giudizio Universale is the oldest fresco in the church. It is Lombardic in style and shows the influence of the Florentine painter known as Giotto (Giotto di Bondone, 1267-1337). It has been dated to the early 1300s and may well have been painted by a pupil or follower of Giotto during his lifetime. Above the row of panels personifying the Seven Vices and Seven Virtues, the artist represented humanity in diverse skin colours and costumes when he depicted the souls of the Departed awaiting Christ’s Judgement on their earthly lives. Below the row of virtues, the fresco takes on a more local flavour, with Gravedona itself represented as a Celestial Jerusalem. Below the vices, the naked souls of the Damned find themselves in Hell.
Size: 4227px × 2808px
Location: Gravedona, Lake Como, Lombardy, Italy
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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