Joos van Cleve, The Last judgement, 1520-25, oil on wood
A well known hierarchy scene, The Last Judgement. The Christ is on the top of everyone else. The patrons, winged putti, and angels are around the Christ. So that Christ becomes the center point of this piece. The scale of the Christ is much bigger, comparing to the patrons and human at the bottom. Since he is the god, it is perfectly fine to have a bigger scale in the painting.
There is an angel right underneath the Christ, the perspective makes the size of human on both left and right sides unequal and lean against the middle, which is also the vanishing point. The size of the human are getting small gradually when they get further. Right in the middle foreground, the size of the human is just right.
Christ shows the left hand path and the right hand path signs(either go hell or heaven). The uses of colors of this piece let us know that which way is to heaven or hell, even viewer know nothing about the philosophy. Figures at the right side of the Christ seems having lighter and fair skin, however, figures at the left side of the Christ seem having a warmer and darker color. Light and fair color symbolize the heaven, warm and dark symbolize hell.
Uses of gestural lines here are highly intelligence. The body movements, the expressions on every one's faces. We see people are praying, begging, sad, regret, happy, frown, struggle, and etc... Even though this is a piece of painting, we can really see every one of them is moving in the negative space.