The Blessed Led to Heaven
2007 © Maxim Tabachnik
Archangel Michael Weighing SoulsGothic Arcades, Hôtel-DieuThe Damned in TormentChrist the JudgeGrotesque and Lion CorbelsStudents in the Hôtel-Dieu CourtyardCourtyard of the Hôtel-DieuThe Blessed Led to HeavenPortrait of Nicolas RolinLuis in the Courtyard of the Hôtel-DieuDragon Corbel, Great HallGuigone de SalinsThe Weighing of SoulsWedding CeremonyAngel with Donor ArmsSaint Eligius Healing the HorseThe Damned Cast into HellThe Virgin with Apostles Peter and JohnLuis in the Great Hall of the Hôtel-DieuChrist at RestPatron Inscription of the Sculle FamilySpire and Roofs

The Blessed Led to HeavenRogier van der Weyden

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This panel from the Last Judgment altarpiece (1445–50) shows an angel guiding the saved toward the gates of paradise. The figures, naked to symbolize purity and equality before God, gesture in prayerful gratitude. Painted for the Hôtel-Dieu in Beaune, the scene offered hope to patients that earthly suffering could be transcended by eternal salvation in heaven.