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Bookmark or Share- The Last Judgment (Michelangelo) - WikipediaThe Last Judgment (Italian: Il Giudizio Universale) is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo covering the whole altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. It is a depiction of the Second Coming of Christ and the final and eternal judgment by God of all humanity.
- Last Judgment (altar wall, Sistine Chapel) - Khan AcademyMichelangelo painted the Last Judgment on the Sistine Chapel's altar wall, depicting Christ as a powerful judge separating the blessed from the damned. The scene shows intense physicality and symbolic value in the human body, reflecting Michelangelo's changing perspective and the Church's challenges during the Protestant Reformation.
- Last Judgment by Michelangelo (article) | Khan AcademyThe Last Judgment was one of the first art works Paul III commissioned upon his election to the papacy in 1534. The church he inherited was in crisis; the Sack of Rome (1527) was still a recent memory.
- The Last Judgment | Painting by Michelangelo, Description, & Facts ...The Last Judgment, fresco by Michelangelo completed 1536–41. Pope Clement VII commissioned Michelangelo to paint a fresco in the Sistine Chapel in 1534. The Last Judgment is generally regarded as one of Michelangelo’s greatest masterpieces.
- Michelangelo's The Last Judgment, Explained | BritannicaIn 1534 Pope Clement VII commissioned Michelangelo to paint a fresco, a mural painting typically done on top of freshly laid lime plaster, in the Sistine Chapel. This fresco, which we now know as The Last Judgment, would be painted along the altar wall, taking the place of Perugino’s artwork which had lain there prior.
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