The composition is clearly divided into earthly and celestial domains and, as the art historian Sarah Schroth has described, two recognizable European types the "All-Saints Picture" of a sacred realm filled with divinities, angels and saints, and the motif of the "Last Judgment, " in which the dead are judged for eternity are beautifully conflated in the upper register.
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