Michelangelo Last Judgement

Throughout the entirety of these verses it is discussing what is thought to happen in the last judgement when we are all before God one last time. In the Last Judgement it is thought that when it comes about we will all “get what is coming for us” meaning that depending on if we tried to be the best people we could be when we were alive or the worst then we will be judged accordingly. Michelangelo seems to have painted this according to more of the Catholic belief system and what they think the Last Judgement will look like. He also seems to add some of the mythological aspects that are in the passages in some of the characters that are in the painting. He could have wanted to paint the people naked to convey how before God everything was laid out before him and that they had no more secrets. Within this painting Michelangelo crams many things
Peter holding the keys, St Bartholomew displaying his flayed skin, the censored version of St. Catherine, Minos as the judge of hell and many more. I believe that he displayed so many different pictures within this one portrait because he wanted to show the many different people that would be there and the many aspects of The Last Judgement. He also inserted things that are considered symbols of passion like the cross that Christ was crucified on, the pillar he was flogged on, and a crown of thorns on Jesus’s head. Michelangelo put Christ at the center of the painting because in all of the translations he is the one to make the decision on whether a person goes to heaven or hell. He seemed to depict heaven with the top half of the painting by making it lighter and having actual colors still mixed into it whereas with his hell depiction he makes it darker and gives it a more depressing look to it. In the hell half of the painting it looks like all of the people are fighting and that there is death; while in the heaven half the people look like they are