WARNING: THIS CLIP PROVIDES CLOSE-UPS OF MICHELANGELO'S FRESCOES. IT MOVES IN CLOSELY TO EXAMINE VARIOUS PARTS OF THE ART WORK AND THE HUMAN BODIES DEPICTED THEREIN. SOME OF THOSE BODIES ARE NUDE. PROCEED WITH CAUTION.
The Last Judgment would be visible everytime the Pope conducted mass in the Sistine Chapel. So important was the work, to the artist personally, he included himself in the flayed skin of Saint Batholomew.
By the time he finished all work in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo was about seventy years old. The new pope - Paul III - had one more significant assignment for the artist, even though his health was failing. He would take over the redesign of St. Peter's Basilica, in the Vatican. The "old" church, which had been removed, would give way to a beautiful new structure with an imposing dome.
The dome, which Michelangelo envisioned, took years to build. It was finished thirty years after Michelangelo died on the 18th of February, 1564.
He had almost eached his 89th birthday.
See, also:
Renaissance Artist - The Divine Michelangelo, Part 1
Renaissance Artist - The Divine Michelangelo, Part 2
Renaissance Artist - The Divine Michelangelo, Part 3
Renaissance Artist - The Divine Michelangelo, Part 4
Renaissance Artist - The Divine Michelangelo, Part 5
Renaissance Artist - The Divine Michelangelo, Part 6
Renaissance Artist - The Divine Michelangelo, Part 7
Renaissance Artist - The Divine Michelangelo, Part 8
Renaissance Artist - The Divine Michelangelo, Part 9
Renaissance Artist - The Divine Michelangelo, Part 10
Renaissance Artist - The Divine Michelangelo, Part 11
Renaissance Artist - The Divine Michelangelo, Part 12
Renaissance Artist - The Divine Michelangelo, Part 13
Renaissance Artist - The Divine Michelangelo, Part 14
Credits
From "The Divine Michelangelo" (2004), with Stephen Noonan playing the title role. Online, courtesy BBC.
Directors
Tim Dunn
Stuart Elliott
Narrator
Susannah York
Michelangelo
Stephen Noonan
