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the Sistine Chapel: Detail of Last Judgment

Detail of Last Judgment

Detail of The Last Judgment, with Minos, the Judge of Souls, in hell with the ears of a jackass. He is a portrait of the papal Master of Ceremonies, Biagio da Cesena, who frequently complained to the Pope about the nudity of the painted figures, saying: "it was a most dishonest act in such a respectable place to have painted so many naked figures immodestly revealing their shameful parts, that it was not a work for a papal chapel but for a bathhouse or house of ill-fame."

Credit: Web Gallery of Art / www.wga.hu