The
Conques Last Judgment Tympanum
Detail:
The Psychostasy (Weighing of
Souls), Torments of the Damned
The figure on the far left is St. Michael holding a scale with his left
hand. (Only the baskets of the scale have survived the centuries.) His
right
hand holds a sword or dagger. His antagonist the demon to the right
tries to fix the verdict by pressing down on one of the baskets. Behind
the demon, other demons torment two souls. A suicide lies prone beneath
two demons facing in opposite directions (see
detail). The soul to the right of that group appears to be a
musician; his
torturer has confiscated his organ and is removing his tongue.
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Photographed at the
site by Richard Stracke