Reach out and touch — one example of drawings an album of rare 16th century drawings after figures in Michelangelo’s The Last Judgment altarpiece in Vatican City’s Sistine Chapel ...

The focus is on the final 30 years of Michelangelo’s life ... Much of his time was taken up with The Last Judgement, and sketches for this colossal work, with its tumbling and soaring figures ...

The scene depicts the Second Coming of Jesus Christ and the final judgment of humanity as written in the New Testament. Over the course of four years, Michelangelo painted over 300 figures in The ...