The Last Judgment 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
Last Judgement
Mary and Christ
The central group around Christ
A group of the Saved
Biagio da Cesena
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Biagio Martinelli, better known as Biagio da Cesena, was a 16th-century Italian priest and Vatican official who served as Papal Master of Ceremonies. He is widely known for his negative reaction to th
The Last Judgment (Michelangelo)
…Minos, supervises the admission of the Damned into Hell; this was his role in Dante's Inferno. He is generally agreed to have been given the features of Biagio da Cesena, a critic of Michelangelo in the Papal court. In the centre above Charon is a group of angels on clouds, seven blowing trumpets (as in the Book of…
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