love with heaven."[27]

Among the works which were undoubtedly done by Fra Angelico during his
stay at Fiesole, may be ascribed several different representations of
the Last Judgment. He derived the inspiration of the subject directly
from Orcagna's fresco in Santa Maria Novella, only Fra Angelico has
created a paradise too exclusively modelled on the monastic life. "His
ideal," writes Reymond, "is a young neophyte entirely absorbed in
prayer--a contemplative being who has renounced earthly life,
abdicating his qualities as a man to dream of nothing but the future
life. Orcagna, on the contrary, dreams of an ideal in which human life
triumphs in all its fulness, and one might say that the beings which
people his Paradise are but glorified bodies."[28]

Fra Giovanni painted Hell and Paradise with small figures for the
Camaldolese monks of Santa Maria degli Angeli. This is the picture
now in the Ancient and Modern Gallery at Florence, of which Vasari
writes, "he proved the rectitude of his judgment in this work, having
made the countenances of the blessed beautiful and full of a celestial
gladness; but the condemned, those destined to the pains of hell, he
has depicted in various attitudes of sorrow, and bearing the impress
and consciousness of their misdeeds and wretchedness on their faces:
the blessed are seen to enter the gate of paradise in triumphal dance,
the condemned are dragged away to eternal punishment in hell by the
hands of demons."[29]

The representation is faithful to artistic tradition. In the highest
part the Saviour calls the elect to Him with His right hand, while
with His left He motions away the reprobate: around Him are eight
winged cherubim, with whom kneeling angels below join to form a
circle. Some are adoring or praying, others hold scrolls in their
hands. On the right sits the Virgin in white robes, with hands crossed
on her breast and head gently bent: on the left St. John Baptist with
hands clasped in prayer. At the sides Patriarchs, Apostles and
Prophets, and at the extremities St. Dominic and St. Francis. An angel
holds the cross at the feet of Christ, and two others flying, blow
their trumpets towards the dead, who rise from the open sepulchres
below.

In the base at the left, demons drag the damned ones to Hell; on the
right the elect cast glances of love and faith on the Saviour, and in
joyous fraternity enjoy the heavenly guerdon. The Elysian Fields of
the blessed are truly celest