Arte e religiosidade: representações do juízo final na pintura flamenga do século xv

Abstract

The use of images as a source of historical research is a relatively new field and has assumed great relevance in the construction of historical knowledge. Belonging to the universe of older evidence that has come to this day, the images allow a broader view of the past. Given this, the research analyzes the medieval iconography of the Last Judgment, focusing on the imagetic representations produced in northern Europe in the fifteenth century. The Last Judgment is one of the most relevant themes to understand the Christian society of the period and, from it, we analyze the changes occurred in the modes of representation of the theme throughout the medieval and, specifically in Flemish painting, focusing attention on several historical issues related to the religious and artistic spheres that may have had some influence on the visual productions of the theme. It is a qualitative study, structured in bibliographic research and iconographic analysis. For the analysis of the images, we used the studies of Jérôme Baschet, Tamara Chirico and, especially, Erwin Panofsky, who subsidized the iconographic analysis, considering the three levels of interpretation proposed by the author: the pre-iconographic description, the description and the iconological description.