| The Ascension of the Elect | |
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| Dutch: Aards paradijs en opgang van de glukzaligen naae het hemels, French: L'Ascension des élus | |
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| Artist | Dieric Bouts |
| Year | c. 1470 |
| Catalogue | 16 |
| Medium | oil on panel |
| Movement | Early Netherlandish, Primitifs flamands |
| Dimensions | 115 cm × 69,5 cm (45 in × 274 in) |
| Location | Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille |
| Accession | 747 |
| Website | https://pba.lille.fr/Collections/Chefs-d-OEuvre/Moyen-Age-et-Renaissance/L-Ascension-des-elus-dit-aussi-Le-Paradis/(plus) |
The Ascension of the Elect is a c. 1470 oil on panel painting by the Early Netherlandish painter Dieric Bouts, originally produced as part of a triptych of the Last Judgment commissioned by the town of Louvain in 1468.[1] The central panel is lost but the other side panel, The Fall of the Damned, survives. Concerning the Elect in the end times, the painting draws on Genesis 2:10, Book of Revelation and The Purgatory of St Patrick, a 14th-century Irish manuscript by Berol telling of Sir Owein's legendary trip to Purgatory.[2] Ascension is now in the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille.[3][4]
- ^ "Eisbär, Dirk Bouts, Le chemin des élus & la chute des damnés". Archived from the original on 2014-10-25. Retrieved 2019-05-07.
- ^ "Catalogue page".
- ^ Michel Butor, Le Musée imaginaire de Michel Butor : 105 œuvres décisives de la peinture occidentale, Paris, Flammarion, 2019 (ISBN 9782081450752), p. 96-99.
- ^ Michel Butor, Dirk Bouts - L'ascension des élus et la chute des damnés, Editions Invenit, 2011 ISBN 978-2-9186-9814-2