Michelangelo's The Last Judgment Author:Margaretta Salinger Michelangelo's fresco of the Last Judgment has been described as the crowning achievement of the greatest artist of the Renaissance. This masterpiece covers one wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, the huge ceiling of which Michelangelo had finished painting in 1512. When in 1541 Michelangelo finally concluded this second herculean labor on one... more » of the largest painting surfaces ever prepared for the brush, he was rewarded for his sublime and moving work by public acclaim. Even so, the painting was soon subject to violent attack: "More fit for a place of debauchery than for the Pope's chapel!" was one of the hysterical judgments of the time. Today there is no doubt of the greatness of the Last Judgment, and Miss Margaretta Salinger's text provides a brilliant and extremely readable analysis of the painting. The reader will come away from this book with a deepened understanding and appreciation of one of man's supreme artistic expressions.« less