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| - | The '''''Last Judgment''''' is a [[mural]] by [[Michelangelo]] on the [[altar]] wall of the [[Sistine Chapel]] in [[Vatican City]]. It took nine years to complete. [[Michelangelo]] began working on it three decades after finishing the [[Sistine chapel ceiling|ceiling of the chapel]]. | + | The '''Sistine Chapel ceiling''', painted by [[Michelangelo]] between 1508 and 1512, at the commission of [[Pope Julius II]], is one of the most renowned artworks of the [[Renaissance painting|High Renaissance]]. The ceiling is that of the large Papal Chapel built within the [[Vatican City|Vatican]] between 1477 and 1480 by [[Pope Sixtus IV]] after whom it is named the [[Sistine Chapel]]. The chapel is the location for [[Papal Conclave]]s and many important services. |
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| - | The work is massive and spans the entire wall behind the altar of the Sistine Chapel. It was executed from 1534 to 1541. The Last Judgment is a depiction of the [[second coming of Christ]] and the [[Book of Revelation|apocalypse]]. The souls of humans rise and descend to their fates, as judged by Christ surrounded by his [[saint]]s. | + | |
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| - | ''The Last Judgment'' was an object of a heavy dispute between [[Cardinal Carafa]] and Michelangelo: the artist was accused of immorality and intolerable obscenity, having depicted naked figures, with genitals in evidence, inside the most important [[church (building)|church]] of [[Christianity]], so a [[censorship]] campaign (known as the "[[Fig-Leaf Campaign]]") was organized by Carafa and [[Monsignor Sernini]] ([[Mantua]]'s ambassador) to remove the frescoes. When the Pope's own Master of Ceremonies, Biagio da Cesena, said "it was mostly disgraceful that in so sacred a place there should have been depicted all those nude figures, exposing themselves so shamefully," and that it was no work for a papal chapel but rather "for the public baths and taverns," Michelangelo worked the Cesena's semblance into the scene as [[Minos]], judge of the underworld (far bottom-right corner of the painting). It is said that when Cesena complained to the Pope, the pontiff responded that his jurisdiction did not extend to hell, so the portrait would have to remain. | + | |
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| - | The genitalia in the fresco were later covered by the artist [[Daniele da Volterra]], whom history remembers by the derogatory nickname "Il Braghettone" ("the breeches-painter"). | + | |
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| - | In the painting, Michelangelo does a self portrait depicting himself as St. Bartholomew after he had been flayed (skinned alive) This is reflective of the feelings of contempt Michelangelo had for being commissioned to paint "The Last Judgement". | + | |
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The Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, at the commission of Pope Julius II, is one of the most renowned artworks of the High Renaissance. The ceiling is that of the large Papal Chapel built within the Vatican between 1477 and 1480 by Pope Sixtus IV after whom it is named the Sistine Chapel. The chapel is the location for Papal Conclaves and many important services.
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