The Bible In Paintings ✝️ Revelation, Chapter 20 — Michelangelo’s “THE LAST JUDGMENT” ✝️

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Michelangelo’s
“THE LAST
JUDGMENT”

֎ Featuring 2 Paintings, 1 Photograph and Details ֎

REVELATION
«Chapter 20»

Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. Earth and sky fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what he had done. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. If anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

MICHELANGELO
"The Last Judgment"

Detail A
"The Central Group around Christ"

Detail B
"Mary and Christ"

Detail C
"A Group of the Saved"

Detail D
"The Damned in the Air"

Detail E
"The Resurrection of the Dead"

Detail F
"Angels, One with the Crown of Thorns [top left]"

Detail G
"Saint Bartholomew Displaying His Flayed Skin,
with the Face of Michelangelo"

Detail H
"Angels, Trumpeting, and One with the Book of Life"

Detail I
"Saint Peter with His Keys "

Detail J
"The Cross upon which Christ Was Crucified [top left] "

Detail K
"The Pillar on which Christ was Flogged [top right] "

Context
"The Last Judgment at the End of the Chapel"

New International Version ©1984
Masthead Painting: “GUEST” by Andrey Mironov

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[Squidpup]

Amazing work of art. Thank you!

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Interesting to me that Michelangelo chose this as his subject for the altar wall, the [horizontal] focal point of the Sistine Chapel

[asformeandformyhouse]

Dude, Jesus was buff!!

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Still is!

[InkStone]

Good Morning Dan, and joyful day to all,

Most unique display today; an epic work for the ages.

God is not mocked, and those leaders who laugh at our Lord’s truth, will one day grovel in quaking terror, screaming for mercy...

Thank You Dan !!

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Preach it, Leon!

[Rinnwald]

Looks like MA invented a few extra muscles.

Also, interesting that hell seems to be like Earth.

[SisterK]

Wow. That is the best picture of the size and scope of Michelangelo’s work at the chapel.

I must say, Michelangelo must have been pretty athletic as well as talented - to shimmy up and down so much scaffolding to create his masterpiece.

[Big Red Badger]

Every knee shall bow and Every tongue
Confess Jesus Is Lord!
.
Those on Earth,
Those Above and
Those Below !
.
Glory to God!

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And he didn’t see himself as a painter, but as a sculptor.

[SisterK]

And he didn’t see himself as a painter, but as a sculptor.

I can seeing him trying to pull 3D out of his paintings.