Trumpeting Angels from The Last Judgment, after Michelangelo
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 16 15/16 in. × 13 in. (43.1 × 33 cm) Plate (irregular): 11 15/16 × 11 1/16 in. (30.3 × 28.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1969
Accession Number
69.581.6
Tags
Art Historical Context
This engraving captures a dramatic detail from Michelangelo Buonarroti’s renowned fresco *The Last Judgment* in the Sistine Chapel. Created between 1536 and1541, the monumental fresco depicts the resurrection of the dead and the final separation of the saved and the damned. Here, muscular angels sound long trumpets to summon souls, their powerful forms and swirling drapery embodying the High Renaissance emphasis on dynamic movement and idealized human anatomy. The print itself is the work of French engraver Nicolas Beatrizet, who translated Michelangelo’s composition into an engraving during ...
About the Artist
Michelangelo Buonarroti|Nicolas Beatrizet · 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...