The black-cloaked figures are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Order" class="extiw" title="w:Dominican Order">Dominican</a> priests (the Blackfriars, the Order of Preachers, O.P.), and the black-and-white dogs are their symbol. (Founded by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Dominic" class="extiw" title="w:Saint Dominic">St. Dominic</a> to preach against heresies, they were referred to as "domini canes", hounds of God.)<br><p>In the left foreground there is a group of about five dozen figures representing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christendom" class="extiw" title="w:Christendom">Christendom</a>, and illustrating the religious and secular hierarchies. At the center are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Innocent_VI" class="extiw" title="w:Pope Innocent VI">Pope Innocent VI</a> and emperor, and at their feet are black-and-white dogs protecting the sheep. The secular figures range from the emperor down to beggars and cripples. Behind them is the great <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Cathedral" class="extiw" title="w:Florence Cathedral">Florentine Duomo</a>, representing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church" class="extiw" title="w:Roman Catholic Church">Church</a>. In the right foreground are three Dominican saints. (Their identification varies among sources.) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Peter_Martyr" class="extiw" title="w:St Peter Martyr">St. Peter Martyr</a> sends the dogs to round up lost sheep and fight off wolves. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Dominic" class="extiw" title="w:St Dominic">St. Dominic</a> preaches to the people while <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas" class="extiw" title="w:Thomas Aquinas">St. Thomas</a> debates heretics.<br></p>
Behind the preachers, in the right middleground, there is a group of worldly pleasure-seekers (above Thomas and the heretics) and two more Dominican figures (above St. Peter and St. Dominic). The faithful are being blessed and ushered to the gate of Heaven, where <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Peter" class="extiw" title="w:Saint Peter">St. Peter</a> welcomes them. Above all is a scene of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_in_majesty" class="extiw" title="w:Christ in majesty">Christ in Majesty</a>, with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Evangelists" class="extiw" title="w:Four Evangelists">emblems of the Evangelists</a>. The overall composition, with the heretics on the right and faithful on the left, echoes many more conventional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_judgment" class="extiw" title="w:Last judgment">Judgment</a> scenes.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Andrea_di_Bonaiuto_da_Firenze" class="extiw" title="w:en:Andrea di Bonaiuto da Firenze"><span title="Italian fresco painter and stained-glass designer (1343-1379)">Andrea di Bonaiuto</span></a>
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