Pseudepigrapha and Last Judgment Iconography

Coșcodan, Daria (2020): Pseudepigrapha and Last Judgment Iconography. Examples from the Church of the Ascension in Luzhany. In: Kuzmová, Stanislava and Znorovszky, Andrea-Bianka (eds.) : Mary, the Apostles, and the Last Judgment. Apocryphal Representations from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Trivent Publishing. pp. 149-160

Abstract

Erected in 1453-1456 and situated in Northern Bukovina (today in Ukraine), the Church of Ascension in Luzhany represents the oldest extant witness of medieval Moldavian monumental art. The scenes depicting the “death of the righteous” and the “death of the sinner” from its Last Judgment cycle are analysed here according to their literary sources, which include Old Testament pseudepigrapha and medieval hagiographic literature. Based on the implications from these extra-biblical sources, it is argued that the eschatological focus of these two scenes is reinforced by the sensorial experience associated with the moment of death.

• Item Type: Book Section
• Form of publication: Publisher's Version
• Faculties: History and Art History > Department of Art History
• Subjects: 700 Arts and recreation > 750 Painting
• ISBN: 978-615-81353-8-2
• Language: English