Michelangelo’s Revenge in Last Judgement

Michelangelo’s Revenge in Last Judgement

While Michelangelo was painting The Last Judgement, Papal MC Biagio de Cesana spied on his work and complained that it was not worthy of the Sistine Chapel. In response, Michelangelo painted Biagio into the fresco as the depiction of Minos, the mythological judge of the dead in the underworld, being dragged to Hell with a snake biting his penis.

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