The Last Judgement – The Representation of angels and devils
Year mention: 1564
Subject:
Last Judgement ; Representation of the angles and devils
Conflict:
Capriccio
Judging art
Untruthfulness/Not probable/Not corresponding to history
Criticism:

Michelangelo decided to break from the traditional representation of the angels and devils

Agent:
Gilio, Giovanni Andrea
Niccolò della Casa, After Michelangelo Buonarroti, set of prints of the Last Judgement, 1548
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, www.metmuseum.org

“M. Ruggiero replied: ‘[…] Michelangelo has not wanted to keep the common usage of painters who give wings to angels and make devils black, with tails and horns. I do not approve of that because you cannot easily distinguish between them?’.”

“Rispose M. Ruggiero: ‘[…] Non ha volute Michelagnolo servare il com mune uso d’i pittori di far gli angeli con l’ale et i demoni neri con la coda e corna lunghe, il che non mi piace, non si potendo conoscere agevolmente gli uni dagli altri’.”

Artist
Buonarroti, Michelangelo
Beatrizet, Nicolas
Bonasone, Giulio
Ghisi, Giorgio

Date mention
1564

Date artwork
1535-1541
Historical Location

Vatican City, Vatican Palace


Current Location
Vatican City, Vatican Palace
Iconclass Number
11U;

Source
Gilio, Dialogue on the errors and abuses of painters (2018), 193; Gilio, Dialogo. Nel quale si ragiona degli errori e degli abusi de’pittori circa l’istorie. In: Due dialogi di M. Giouanni Andrea Gilio da Fabriano (1564), 83-84
Literature

Gilio 2018, 193, n. 326, fig. 19-22

Permanent Link
https://www.sacrima.eu/case/the-last-judgement-the-representation-of-angels-and-devils/