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A painting of several religious figures.
The above painting is Michelangelo Buonarroti’s, Last Judgement. What is/was the source of inspiration for this famous painting? What does the painting depict?

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Michelangelo’s Last Judgment was inspired by the Christian biblical tradition of the Last Judgment, especially images and texts from the New Testament Book of Revelation and medieval/Renaissance iconography of Christ’s Second Coming. The fresco shows the Second Coming of Christ in the center, surrounded by saints and angels, with the dead rising and being separated into the blessed (rising to heaven) and the damned (being dragged down to hell). Around Christ are dramatic, muscular figures in dynamic poses that express the drama and moral consequences of the final judgment. One famous detail is Saint Bartholomew holding his flayed skin, whose face is often read as a self-portrait of Michelangelo.