Michelangelo's The Last Judgement Of The Last Day

Throughout the years, there has been a constant struggle between good and evil. Michelangelo saw that and put his interpretation of The Last Judgement of the last days. Michelangelo knew that through tribulations, hardships, suffering, anguish, and darkness; the good always wins in the end. In this painting, Michelangelo demonstrated the chaos and the darkness surrounding the world, and then the peaceful and light image of Jesus at the center of it all. The dark values are near the bottom of the painting and are farthest from Jesus while the light values are most bright nearest to Jesus. Starting at the top left corner, we see angels laboriously carrying the very cross that Jesus carried up to Calvary mountain. You can see how hard they work to complete this task and that still many …show more content…
In both cases, Michelangelo uses proportion to show depth. As we get down near the bottom of the painting, the light blue turns to a darker value of blue symbolizing that something sinister is going on. Right away you see fighting, some of this is because angels are fighting those who are unrighteous, and the humans are fighting both the angels and daemons. The daemons attack from below the clouds while the angels attack from heaven. You can see symbols of why they are unrighteous, such as a money bag hanging from the neck of the man who is going down to hell upside down on the far right of the painting. Or the man who is being pulled down by his private parts because of his lust, also seen on the far-right side of the painting. One man who is cowering and has one hand on his left eye is just surprised and scared because he did not believe and yet is being taken to hell by two daemons. All the damned fall into a boat that is steered by the ferryman of Greek mythology, “Charon”, and he steers them all into hell. They are judged by another Greek mythological creature, Minos, on their way into hell, he is the creature that is tied to a poll with a