Michelangelo’s stunning, fresco masterpiece, The Last Judgment, located on the entire altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, affords numerous hidden clues and people of significance ...
Michelangelo was just five years old in 1480 when Pope Sixtus IV commissioned the building of the Sistine Chapel. The chapel was part of a glorification of the Vatican carried out by Sixtus.
It was 25 years after he completed the Sistine Chapel ceiling that Michelangelo began working on The Last Judgment, a fresco that covers the entire altar wall of the Vatican City landmark.
After completing the ceiling, he painted The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican but always desired to be recognised as a sculptor. In The Story of Art ...