The discovery: Michelangelo painted a miniature copy of the Last Judgment on canvas: right here is the rediscovered portray

A small Last Judgment with Christ the Judge and different figures from the well-known fresco that may be admired within the Sistine Chapel painted by Michelangelo Buonarroti in oil on canvas, the one instance of the usage of this method by the Master”. The portray is on very superb linen canvas and has the scale of 96.52 x 81.28 cm. declares Amel Olivares, specialist in Renaissance artwork, after analysis lasting over 8 years with the collaboration of the artwork historical past and conservation scholar, Monsignor José Manuel del Rio Carrasco. The work underneath investigation is “The Last Judgment of Ginevra”, of which traces had been misplaced for greater than 100 years. According to the reconstruction, it was a present from Michelangelo to the painter Alessandro Allori who used it as a mannequin to create an altarpiece altarpiece within the Basilica Santissima Annunziata in Florence.