Last Judgment; after Michelangelo's fresco in the Sistine Chapel
Medium
Engraving; three plates
Dimensions
Irregularly shaped: approx. sheet: 25 1/2 x 28 1/8 in. (64.8 x 71.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number
59.570.45(1)
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About the Artist
Michelangelo Buonarroti|Giorgio Ghisi · 1475–1564
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475–1564) stands as the quintessential figure of the Italian High Renaissance, a sculptor, painter, architect, and poet whose mastery across disciplines embodied the era's humanist ideals. Born on March 6, 1475, in Caprese within the Republic of Florence to a modest family—his father, Lodovico di Buonarroti Simoni, served as a minor magistrate—Michelang...