Genius of Michelangelo

The Last Judgement—Part 2 (1x27)

Air date: Jan 01, 2007

The individual figures and details of the Last Judgment demonstrate Michelangelo's great inventive capacity but also reveal the unconventional nature and multiple meanings of the gigantic fresco. The work's reception was not always positive, reflecting a controversy about the number and appropriateness of the artist's nudes.