Artist field note

Michelangelo

The body becomes destiny.

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The Last Judgment by Michelangelo
Art Institute of Chicago · Public domainSource ↗

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The Last Judgment

1536-1541

Salvation and damnation are not distant ideas. They happen to bodies - twisting, falling, reaching, terrified.

The five in one idea

For Michelangelo, the human body was the greatest stage ever invented.