1. Paints The Last Judgment

    · Sistine Chapel, Vatican City

    Paints The Last Judgment
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    Michelangelo began painting The Last Judgment on the Sistine Chapel’s altar wall, a monumental undertaking completed in 1541. The page identifies the work as Michelangelo’s fresco covering the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel.

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