Finis Gloriae Mundi

One of the parts of the hieroglyphs of the afterlife, "Los jeroglíficos de las postrimerías" in Spanish. This Spanish Baroque painter shows a frightful vision of death: corpses being eaten by insects, the inevitable future of all living beings, with an owl and a bat (the "animals of the darkness"). The closest two are a bishop and a knight of the Order of Calatrava. Death affects everyone equally, and all of our souls are judged: the hand of Christ (surrounded by a beam of golden light, with the hole of the Cross) emerges from the top of the painting to show a scale in the middle. On the left plate, the symbol of the seven capital sins symbolizes evil and eternal damnation. On the rift plate, elements of virtue, pray, and penance.