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 LAST MUSTER to a Sienese painter, perhaps Pietro Loren- zettL C. & C., Italy, i. 4-47. By Rubens, Munich Gallery ; canvas, H. 18 ft. 9 in. x 14 ft. 3 in. Above, the three persons of the Trinity in clouds, at the top of the composition the Father, beneath him the Holy Ghost, and beneath it Christ, half enveloped in a red mantle, with the Virgin, in a white robe, inclining before him ; near them the apostles, the patriarchs, and prophets, seated upon clouds ; angels sound trum- pets, and Michael, with thunder- bolts in his hands, stands at the feet of Christ ; below, on one side the elect are rising, 011 the other the damned are being cast down. Among the elect is Helena Forman. Rubens's largest pict- ure. Painted in 1G17 for Church at Ncuberg. Sketch in Dresden Gallery. Engraved by Visscher ; Ch. Hess. Riegel, Beitriige, 287; Larousse, ix. 1081. By Luca Siyiiordli, Cathedral of Orvieto ; fresco, one of a series illustrative of the end of the world. DAgincourt, Arts au moyen Age, Peinture, PI. 15G ; Larousse, ix. 1080. By Tintoretto, S. M. dell Orto, Venice ; canvas, H. GO ft. x 30 ft. On right wall of chancel. A gran- diose and colossal work. Painted about 154G. Ruskin says : "By Tintoret only has this unimagin- able event been grappled with in its verity ; not typically nor sym- bolically, but as they may see it who shall not sleep, but be changed." Ruskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 317 ; do., Mod. Painters, ii. 177 ; Ridolfi, Marav, ii. 184 ; Zauotto, 327. By Roger van der Weyden, Hospital of Beaune, France ; H. 7 ft. 4 in. x 4 ft. 4 in. Altarpiece in nine compartments, with paint- ed shutters. The most comprehensive ex- ample of the master extant. Painted in 1443-47 for the Burgundian Chancellor Rollin, whose kneeling portrait, with that of his wife, is on the outside of the shutter. Illustration in Kugler. Kugler (Crowe), i. 81 ; Larousse, ix. 1081 ; Forster, x. LAST MUSTER, Hubert Herkomer, Hol- loway Institute, Egham. The last act in the drama of war. A quiet Sunday service in the chapel of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, Last Judgment, Rubens, Munich Gallery. one old man, the principal figure, evidently at his last muster ; in background, the vet- erans of war at rest, with tattered banners overhead. Royal Academy, 1875. L'Art (1875), iii. 252. LAST PRAYER, Jean Leon Gerome. See Christian Marti/rn. LAST REBELS, flyami-Constant, Lux- embourg Museum ; canvas, H. 5 ft. 8 in. x 11 ft. 4 in. The principal chiefs of the re- 27