Describe the subject, content, and location of Michelangelo’s Last Judgment, and explain the reasons it almost immediately provoked controversy

Question

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Answer 1

1. Michelangelo’s Last Judgment was a commission given to him by Pope Paul III that involved painting the wall above the main altar in the Sistine Chapel.
2. The content of his work illustrates Judgment Day, incorporating in the top center images of Mary and Christ, flanked on either side by saints and martyrs.
3. The bottom of the painting includes angels to the left welcoming souls as they ascend from their graves, while to the right demons drag the damned into hell.
4. The work was met with immediate controversy over the use of nude religious figures. Not long after Michelangelo’s death in 1564, the artist Volterra and others were tasked with painting draperies over the genitals of the figures as a result of disfavor with Michelangelo’s nude subject matter.