The Ascension of the Elect is a c. 1470 oil on panel painting by the Early Netherlandish painter Dieric Bouts, originally produced as part of a triptych of the Last Judgment commissioned by the town of Louvain in 1468.

[5] Hilde Claes writes that "the relationship between The Road to Heaven and the Fall of the Damned is worked out so ingeniously that both compositions almost certainly belonged together.

"[6] Catheline Périer-D’Ieteren writes that while traditionally "the elect" ascend a stairway to heaven, here they walk on a path rich and lyrical in plant and animal life[7] toward a terrestrial paradise.

[5] The treatment of vegetation in the foreground recalls the painting in oil by the brothers Jan and Hubert van Eyck at Ghent.

[5] Palais des Beaux Arts, Lille information page on The Ascension of the Elect [in French]