# Last Judgment \(detail\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MICHELANGELO Buonarroti]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Fresco ## Commentary The detail shows the blessed saints and martyrs surrounding Christ the Judge in the right part of the fresco. The main figure of this group is St Peter, who is offering the two huge key to christ, emblems of the power to bind and to release men from sin that had been delegated to the Popes. Below is the figure of St Bartholomew, with the skin that was stripped from him when he was martyred. This skin is clearly recognisable as a dramatic self-portrait of the artist - another sign of Michelangelo's terror of the 'flesh' and of the 'sin', but also of his thirst for spiritual renewal and salvation. ## Related artworks - [A Man Lifting a Boar onto his Shoulder \(verso\)]() - [Abraham - Isaac - Jacob - Judah]() - [Achim - Eliud \(detail\)]() - [Achim - Eliud \(detail\)]() - [Achim - Eliud]() - [Aeneas with a Boy \(recto\)]() - [Allegorical figure]() - [Amminadab \(detail\)]() - [Amminadab \(detail\)]() - [Amminadab]() - [Ancestors of Christ: figures \(detail\)]() - [Ancestors of Christ: figures \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()