Johann König, Last Judgement on alabaster, before 1632

Johann König, Depiction of the Last Judgement, painted on alabaster slab. Dimensions: 525x 537 mm. Location: Augsburg Cabinet, Gustavianum, Uppsala. Inventory number: UUK 66.

This image of the Last Judgment, painted on an alabaster, forms one side of a reversible door, framed in ebony, within the Ausgsburg cabinet of Gustavus Adolphus, now in the Gustavianum in Uppsala. On the other side of the slabe is a similar depiction of Moses leading the Chidren of Israel through the Red Sea, also by Johann König. A thumbnail of the image in situ can be found here.

Commentary. Howard Hotson (May 2018)