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Michelangelo.
The Last Judgment.
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1534 - 1541.
Fresco, 1370 x 1220 cm.
Cappella Sistina, Vatican.
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According to the Christian doctrine, the Last Judgment is the second coming of Christ, when "The Lord shall judge the people".
In the Gospel of Matthew he renders the words of Jesus in the following way: "When the Son of Man comes in his glory and all
the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne, with all the nations gathered before him. He will separate people into two groups"
and the righteous He will bless, and they will enter eternal life; and the wicked He will curse and they will go away to eternal punishment.
This fresco was commissioned by Pope Clement VII shortly before his death. His successor, Paul III Farnese,
forced Michelangelo to a rapid execution of this work, the largest single fresco of the century.
The first impression we have when faced with the Last Judgment is that of a truly universal event, at the centre of which stands the powerful figure of Christ.
His raised right hand compels the figures on the lefthand side, who are trying to ascend, to be plunged down towards Charon and Minos, the Judge of the Underworld;
while his left hand is drawing up the chosen people on his right in an irresistible current of strength. Together with the planets and the sun, the saints
surround the Judge, confined into vast spacial orbits around Him. For this work Michelangelo did not choose one set point from which it should be viewed.
The proportions of the figures and the size of the groups are determined, as in the Middle Ages, by their single absolute importance and not by their relative significance.
For this reason, each figure preserves its own individuality and both the single figures arid the groups need their own background.
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