The World to Come: Ukrainian Images of the Last Judgment

Icons and murals depicting the biblical scene of the Last Judgment adorned many Eastern—rite churches in medieval and early modern Ukraine. Dating from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries, these images were extraordinarily elaborate, composed of dozens of discrete elements reflecting Byzantine, Novgorodian, Moldavian, and Catholic influences, in addition to local and regional traditions. Over time, the details of the iconography evolved in response to changing cultural resources, the co...