Michelangelo's 16th-century fresco "The Last Judgment" in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican (Wikimedia Commons/Burkhard Mücke)

Why Michelangelo's 'Last Judgment' endures

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The Last Judgment is a common theme in Christian art. But Michelangelo's dramatic imagery in his Sistine Chapel fresco provokes deeper thought: After all, how does anyone on earth know what the saints do in heaven?

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