Paints The Last Judgment
· Sistine Chapel, Vatican City

Wikimedia Commons · Public domain; faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional public-domain work of art · file 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.