# Detail of the wall decoration

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## Artwork

- Artist: [MICHELANGELO Buonarroti](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/michelangelo-buonarroti-r3de9890382970b>)
- Date: 1501-1550
- Technique: Fresco

## Commentary

The picture shows a view of the last two bays on the north side of the Sistine Chapel with the scenes of the Surrender of the Keys to Peter, by Perugino, and the Last Supper by Rosselli; in the galley of early popes above, Fabian, Lucius, Sixtus II and Felix I; in the lunettes that are part of Michelangelo&#39;s ceiling, the Lineage of Christ \(Josiah - Jechoniah - Shealtiel and Azor - Zadok\).

## Related artworks

- [A Man Lifting a Boar onto his Shoulder \(verso\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/michelangelo-buonarroti-r3de9890382970b/a-man-lifting-a-boar-onto-his-shoulder-verso-r115b841cb7830d>)
- [Abraham - Isaac - Jacob - Judah](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/michelangelo-buonarroti-r3de9890382970b/abraham---isaac---jacob---judah-re59033e00c75bc>)
- [Achim - Eliud \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/michelangelo-buonarroti-r3de9890382970b/achim---eliud-detail-r8732f548c94eeb>)
- [Achim - Eliud \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/michelangelo-buonarroti-r3de9890382970b/achim---eliud-detail-r88d58f08bdbf25>)
- [Achim - Eliud](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/michelangelo-buonarroti-r3de9890382970b/achim---eliud-rdc3468170d2d71>)
- [Aeneas with a Boy \(recto\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/michelangelo-buonarroti-r3de9890382970b/aeneas-with-a-boy-recto-r1b3406e4b4af98>)
- [Allegorical figure](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/michelangelo-buonarroti-r3de9890382970b/allegorical-figure-r75fcb28139de00>)
- [Amminadab \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/michelangelo-buonarroti-r3de9890382970b/amminadab-detail-r49171c9661e417>)
- [Amminadab \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/michelangelo-buonarroti-r3de9890382970b/amminadab-detail-r65ca91139b9ee7>)
- [Amminadab](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/michelangelo-buonarroti-r3de9890382970b/amminadab-re78a9712f2390d>)
- [Ancestors of Christ: figures \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/michelangelo-buonarroti-r3de9890382970b/ancestors-of-christ-figures-detail-r2819d177fc0ff3>)
- [Ancestors of Christ: figures \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/michelangelo-buonarroti-r3de9890382970b/ancestors-of-christ-figures-detail-r52f3f69788f7b7>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)