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last-judgement-michelangelo

I added this LAST JUDGMENT fresco of Michelangelo because sometime ago I wrote a commentary on it in the endnotes of my paper on the Sistine Chapel.

If the viewer was to contrast this altar wall fresco of the Last Judgment with the other three walls of the chapel it would be notice that the tiers of each wall coincide with each other. The Last Judgment is a commentary on the other three walls.

The altar was was initially structured as the other three walls: two fresco lunetters at the top with ancestors of Christ, two windows, four addition popes frescoed in alcove like shells, two fresco scenes: one for Moses and one for Christ. All of this was obliterated and the wall completed restructured to hold this Last Judgment.

The Last Judgment is not some endtimes period: end of the world. Rather the Last Judgment refers to how each individual believes in God.

From the top of the wall it ask will you seek God through the ancestral kings of Christ's ancestry?

Or as your eyes descend to the Popes: will you go to the High-Priest for knowledge of God? Or through the light of the windows suggesting that one can obtain knowledge of God through nature. Or even go to a your mythological beliefs concerning Christ and Mary or any one of hte enumerable saints in the Communion of Saints for knowledge of God???

As the eyes decend it suggest other false prophets in the spirit of the risen dead or gurus and any other false prophet.

Will you go to any of these or other false prophets for knowledge of God or will you go directly to God for knowledge of him???? THIS IS THE LAST JUDGMENT: There is no other.

The Church was into esoterically coding the original spiritual truths for those that were ready for it.

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Comment by Jaefar S.A.B.N.W. on September 20, 2010 at 9:16pm: With a calm face it says, "Worlds above, worlds below, no one in the world like me." Asides from that what else may be said with this painting....
It makes sense that a bunch of sexually repressed clergy would demand the top artists to supply them with pornography for their ritual rooms.

Comment by William John Meegan on September 21, 2010 at 8:49am: Jaetar S.A.B.N.W.

Forgive me for not adding the information that I wanted to go with this fresco painting of Michelangelo. I did not have enough time to do it when I downloaded it. But you can now read those comments.

Your remarks about the Church's pornography is not the spirit of what was being displayed in the chapel and in fact throughout the Renaissance period. The reason for the nudity is the grand facade that was being overlaid on the esoteric science coded to the artwork. The Renaissance period allegedly meant the REBIRTH of the art and archetecture of ancient Greece and Rome; rather it was the REBIRTH of Christianity, which was codified to this new/old trend of art.

People are prone to only seeing what their eyes tell them. Seldom do people use their minds to reason out what their eyes are telling them.