Naarden Grote Kerk

The Grote Kerk is at ground zero Naarden and is, on the outside, your standard dark red brick northern European Protestant structure. We had every expectation of seeing the standard stark yet severe blank white interior inside.

We walked in and--as we have been
trained in French cathedrals--looked up 

and whoa! what's that?! Apparently, the barrel-
vault wooden ceiling had been painted, prior
to the Reformation, then white-washed, and
then rediscovered and uncovered in a recent
renovation...what a treat!

The Judgement is over the chancel, and then each successive
bay contains both an Old Testament and a New Testament
depiction, the New, as always, showing how the Old Testament
is fulfilled

Thus, the mocking of Jesus/the mocking of Elisha

And, the Deposition (Jesus going into the tomb for 3 days)/
Jonah going into the fish for 3 days (the Deposition is known
to be a copy of a Durer print)

Organ and elevation; the church is known for
an annual performance of Bach's St. Mattthew
Passion

Vicki using a mirror to study the ceiling

Judgement

Heaven: in the most informative detail we have
yet scene, it appears that in Heaven girls have
to be fully clothed, boy, um, not so much

Hell

Neat place...no hint of which nor of Naarden generally was in
guidebook