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Where exactly in the Sistine Chapel's 'Last Judgment' is Michelangelo said to have hidden his own self-portrait?
Answer
In the face of Satan
According to art historians, Michelangelo embedded his likeness in the chin of Satan in 'The Last Judgment' — a hidden, defiant signature placing the artist himself in Hell within one of the most prominent sacred works in Western art.
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Michelangelo deliberately carved his own face into Satan's chin in the Sistine Chapel's Last Judgment, hiding a self-portrait in Hell.
Other options people guess
- In the flayed skin held by Saint Bartholomew
- In the face of Christ the Judge
- In the figure of Charon ferrying souls
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- michelangelo
- sistine-chapel
- self-portrait
- renaissance
- last-judgment
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