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Christ appears above a rainbow with his feet resting on the globe of the Earth and his arms raised. He is flanked by Mary and Saint John the Baptist, and besides them, the twelve apostles. Two trumpeting angels announce the Last Judgement, which ties in with the lower scene of the resurrection of the dead and their reward or punishment for earthly acts. This representation of Christ resurrected as
This panel is part of the altarpiece or altar of repose from the Guisando Nativity (P00683-P00690), a common structure in numerous Spanish monastic cloisters. This one comes from the Hieronymite monastery in Guisando (Avila), where it was mentioned by Ponz in 1773. There, the altarpiece was set into a wall, forming a sort of box whose doors bore The Visitation, with Saint Jerome, Penitent and The
