MICHELANGELO

The fame of Michelangelo (1475 – 1564), as a painter, is inevitably linked to the Sistine Chapel, although we must not forget the frescoes in the Paoline Chapel, commissioned by Pope Paul III Farnese.

Michelangelo worked on the Sistine Chapel for two different popes, Julius II, from 1508 - 1512 and Paul III, 1536-1541. For the first painted the ceiling, for the second, on the front wall, the Last Judgment.

They are two very different works, the first symmetrical and harmonious, it is one of the greatest testimonies of the Renaissance. The second, created after the Lutheran schism and the sack of Rome in 1527, communicates the deep concerns of the new times.

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