Last Judgement c. 18th century

Curator: Tommaso Piroli, born in 1752, sketched this "Last Judgement," and it’s held here at the Harvard Art Museums. Editor: It feels... incomplete. Like a dream half-remembered. So many bodies suspended in air, waiting. Curator: Precisely. Piroli's sketch is all line and suggestion. He leaves space for the viewer to fill in the heavenly fire and brimstone. Editor: Or perhaps, the gentle embrace of eternity. The trumpets don't sound like warnings, but invitations. Curator: It invites introspection, doesn't it? What judgment are we truly facing in this moment? Editor: I always thought the apocalypse would be louder. But maybe it whispers, like this drawing.