Hieronymus Bosch (Jeroen van Aken, ca 1450-1516), The Last Judgment, triptych (1504-08), central panel, 163 x 128 cm.
Weltgerichtstriptychon
Akademie für bildenden Künste, Vienna

The central panel represents the earth in her final death throes. In the view of Bosch, earth has become indistinguishable from Hell, depicted on the right wing. Therefore, the agony during earthly life is mainly one of physical torment. Bosch depicts in the central panel naked bodies of the damned mutilated, gnawed by serpents, consumed in fiery furnaces and imprisoned in diabolic engines of torture.

A man is slowly roasted on a spit by an ugly little creature with a bloated belly. Nearby, a female demon has put down her victim into a frying pan, like a piece of ham, to accompany the eggs at her feet. While mounted on the back of a female victim, creeping on hands and knees, a partly armoured rodent-like monster cuts off the arm of a second victim, hanging upturned in a tree and harassed by a bird-headed demon.

A fat glutton held by a devil is forced to drink from a barrel his own piss - source of his dubious refreshment rage - funnelled from the window overhead into the barrel, held by another devil. The salacious woman on the roof above suffers the attentions of a lizard-like monster and a black serpent slithering across her loins, while being serenaded by two musical demons.

The variety of torments in Bosch’s imagination seems infinite. A spatulate bird-like monster on humanoid legs carries its victim, pierced by an arrow and suspended from a stick with a soaked sponge at the end, dripping above the victim’s head, as to keep him alive. A disembodied head dressed in a rag scuttles behind on a pair of stolen stubby feet.

From the cliffs in the middle distance to the right, a procession of mixed damned and demons descend over the bridge, preceded by a pair of torture engines. Above, blacksmith-devils hammer other victims on anvils, and one is being shod like a horse.

Still a lot of other torments and complex demons are on display, hardly describable with precision.
The upper part of the central panel shows Christ, only surrounded by the very few blessed enjoying the eternal bliss.