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The ''Last Judgment'' is a painting by Michelangelo located in the Sistine Chapel ( Vatican City ), above the Altar . The work is massive and spans the entire wall behind the altar of the Sistine Chapel. The Last Judgment is a depiction of the second coming of Christ and the Apocalypse . Where the souls of humanity rise and dissent to their various assorted fates, as judged by Christ and his Saintly entourage. The '' 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 da Cesena's semblance into the scene as Minos , judge of the underworld. It is said that when he complained to the Pope, the pontiff responded that his jurisdiction did not extend to hell, so the portrait would have to remain. 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"). EXTERNAL LINKS |
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