Christ sits in judgment on a rainbow while, below him, the Archangel Michael, in golden Milanese armor and a Florentine brocade cloak, weighs souls. The saved climb crystal stairs to the gate of Heaven on the left; the damned are cast down into Hell on the right. The Florentine banker Angelo Tani, head of the Medici Bank’s branch in Bruges, commissioned the triptych from Hans Memling for his family chapel near Florence, and the outer sides of the wings show Tani and his wife, Caterina Tanagli. It never got there: in 1473 Gdańsk privateers under Paul Beneke seized the ship carrying it, and it was given to St.

Mary’s Church in Gdańsk. Taken to Paris in 1807, it hung in the Louvre for eight years as a work by Jan van Eyck; found by the Red Army in 1946, it returned to Poland ten years later. Painted in 1467–1473 in tempera and oil on oak, it is in the National Museum in Gdańsk.