Michelangelo, The Last Judgment: Vassar's Recreation of the Sistine Chapel in Second Life

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Where is Michelangelo's Last Judgment?
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It is painted on the altar or West wall of the Sistine Chapel, just beside Saint Peter's in the Vatican.

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Was the Last Judgment a common subject?
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Yes, the Last Judgment was a very common subject during the Medieval period before the Renaissance. It lost favor with the rise of Humanism in the 14th-century but reappears here marking the death of the Italian Renaissance. Here is Giotto's great representation of the Last Judgment from the Arena Chapel in Padua from 1305-06. Giotto's composition closely follows a long tradition, one that Michelangelo returns to.

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Who Commissioned Michelangelo?
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While Pope Julius II commissioned the Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, it was Clement VII a Medici, and after his death, Paul III a Farnese who commissioned this later fresco. __________ Titian, Pope Paul III and his Grandsons Alessandro and Ottavio Farnese, 1546 oil on canvas (Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples)

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More on Martin Luther and the Reformation
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What does the Bible say?
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Here is an English translation from the Vulgate of The Apocalypse of Saint John the Apostle: Chapter 20

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Sources for Charon, Hell's Ferryman
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Dante's Charon (below) was based on Virgil's Aeneid Then all together sorely wailing drew To the cursed strand, that every man must pass Who fears not God. Charon, demoniac form, With eyes of burning coal, collects them all, Calls, and each, that lingers, with his oar Strikes. As fall off the light autumnal leaves, One still another following, till the bough Strews all its honors on the earth beneath; Dante Alighieri, Canto 3, The Inferno, Divine Comedy c. 1308-21

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Minos, Judge of the Damned
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I mean that when the spirit born to evil appears before him, it confesses all; and he, the connoisseur of sin, can tell the depth in Hell appropriate to it; as many times as Minos wraps his tail around himself, that marks the sinner's level. -Dante

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Channels: European ArtPaintingRenaissance Art
Artists: Michelangelo

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1474-1564), The Last Judgment, fresco, 1534-41 (Sistine Chapel, Vatican)

A conversation in the virtual world of Second Life, in the recreation of the Sistine Chapel on Vassar's campus there. Begun twenty-two years after Michelangelo completed the ceiling, this violent image of the Second Coming of Christ harks back to the themes of the Medieval era even as it challenges the triumphs of Renaissance painting.

Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris (Max Newbold), Dr. Steven Zucker (Sez Zabelin)

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