The depiction of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ and God’s final judgment of humanity was a popular subject throughout the Renaissance. This new wall in the Sistine Chapel would have a specific theme-the Last Judgment. Nigel Crockford on Leonardo da Vinci vs.Christ and the Virgin Mary in ‘The Last Judgment' (Photo: Public domain via Wikipedia) Read how Michelangelo painted the great mural and what some critics thought of it: The Last Judgment by Michelangelo *The figure is reminiscent of the Greek Jupiter the Archer It was the figure that took Michelangelo longest to paint (10 fresco days) and shows signs of several corrections. *Some say the Virgin has the face of Michelangelo’s great friend Vittoria Colonna or is a synthesis of the traditional depiction of the Virgin and the Greek statue of Aphrodite. Stephen or Plato (or wisdom) or a charitable monk or an angel or Martin LutherĤ8 Charon or Satan with the features of the Condestable of Bourbonĥ0 Minos with the face of Biagio da Cesenaĥ1 and 52 Count Ugolino and Archbishop Ruggeri Andrew Simon the Cyrenian the encarnation of Justice the symbol of Man with his trials and tribulationsģ1, 32, 33 One of the blessed or an angel raising two black menģ4 The Archangel Michael with the Book of the Chosen Onesģ6 A proud man or one condemned for Despair (as opposed to theological Hope)Ĥ1 A miser or the simoniac Pope Nicholas IIIĤ3 A lustful man caught and thrown down to hell by his genitalsĤ5 Michelangelo or Pope Julius II or Virgil or St. Sebastian with the arrows of his martrydomĢ9 Dimas or St. Longinus, the soldier who lanced Christ on the CrossĢ5 Job’s wife or Eve or Pope Hadrian VIĢ8 St. Bartholomew with the face of MichelangeloĢ1 St.
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Bartholomew with the face of Pietro Aretino, the poet who criticized the painting as indecentġ7a The skin of St. Anne or Vittoria Colonna, Michelangelo’s great friendġ6 Francesco Amadori (the Urbino) or Tommaso de Cavalieri, Michelangelo’s friendġ7 St. Andrew or John the Baptist or Dimas ġ1 St.
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It is taken from La obra pictórica completa de Miguel Angel in the Clásicos del arte series published by Noguer-Rizzoli Editores, Barcelona, 1968Ģ Pharoah’s daughter who found Moses or Eve or Sarahģ and 4 Niobe and a daughter or Eve and a daughter (the personification of maternity) or the merciful Church and a believerĥ Abel, who was murdered by his brother Cain or EveĦ Abraham or St.
Here is an outline of the main figures of the painting and their possible identification. Catherine of Alexandría and the instrument of her martyrdom.īut whether Michelangelo intended to portray other specific personages from the Bible or history and even living men, no one can say for sure. Peter and the woman with the fragment of a wheel must be St. For example, the big figure on Christ’s left who holds the Keys to Heaven can be none other than St. Some were meant by Michelangelo to be identified. There are almost four hundred figures, many of them life-size and larger.
On the right side, angels are throwing the wicked men down to Hell, where a big Devil with eyes like coals drives them off a boat and other devils pull them down into that terrible place. Just beneath Him are two martyrs and, below them, angels with trumpets, announcing His Coming.Īt the bottom of the wall on the left men and women are rising from the dead. In the two arches above Him hosts of angels (without wings) bring the instruments of His Passion-the cross, the pillar at which He was scourged. On His left, the Apostles, the Prophets, Confessors, and Martyrs. On His right are the Patriarchs, the Hebrew women, Holy Virgins, and Sibyls. He is the figure in the top center and beside Him is His mother, the Virgin Mary. Christ has come to judge the living and the dead.
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