Description
Ask three people what Michelangelo’s “Last Judgment” in the Sistine Chapel says to them and you’re likely to get three different answers. So too it was with critics and art historians in the 16th century, and remains today. Perhaps the most famous painted depiction of heaven and hell in art history, Michelangelo envisions a maelstrom of nude bodies, some flying heavenward, others tumbling into the abyss. Dramatic action, even chaos reigns. What are the different ways to see and interpret what’s going on?
