03 — ARTWORK
Last Judgment
- MEDIUM
- Detached fresco
- TYPE
- Religious
PALETTE
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- FILE
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COMMENTARY
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Fra Bartolomeo took holy orders at San Marco, in the convent whose walls Fra Angelico frescoed more than half a century earlier. He established a workshop devoted to the creation of sacred art. In his monumental Last Judgment frescoWall painting technique in which pigments are applied to wet (fresh) plaster (intonaco). The pigments bind with the drying plaster to form a very durable image. Only a small area can be painted in a day, and these areas, drying to a slightly different tint, can in time be seen. Small amounts of retouching and detail work could be carried out on the dry plaster, a technique known as a secco fresco. executed for Santa Maria Nuova he portrayed Angelico in the heavens among the saints.
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author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {Last Judgment by BARTOLOMEO, Fra},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-13},
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urldate = {2026-09-13},
langid = {english}
}ACCESSED 2026-09-13. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
