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The Last Judgment is a triptych attributed to Netherlandish painter Hans Memling and painted between 1467 and 1471. It is now in the National Museum in Gdańsk in Poland. It was commissioned by Tommaso Portinari, an agent of the Medici at Bruges but was captured by a privateer from Danzig (Gdańsk), Poland. It was placed in the Basilica of the Assumption but in the 20th century it was moved to its present location.
The central panel shows Jesus sitting in Judgment on the world, while St Michael the Archangel is weighing souls and driving the Damned towards Hell. (The sinner in St. Michael's right-hand pan is a donor portrait of Tommaso Portinari.) On the left hand panel, the Saved are being guided into Heaven by St Peter and Angels. On the right-hand panel, the Damned are being dragged to Hell.
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