The Last Judgment

This depiction of the subject derives from Tintoretto’s Last Judgment (Madonna dell’Orto, Venice) in both its general composition and individual motifs. Like several other Netherlandish painters, Dirck Barendsz. may have worked in Tintoretto’s studio for a while. There, or in its owner’s house, he would also have seen Tintoretto’s Susanna and the Elders (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna), of which he makes use for the female sinner shown being resurrected in the lower part of his composition.