It's not hard to imagine Michaelangelo getting sick of the Pope bothering him while he worked. How was an artist supposed to concentrate, when some Pope kept telling him to hurry up. So he may gotten his revenge in the way an artist can, in his work.
I saw this in wikki and thought it was funny. Especially the Pope's reply.
A censorship campaign (known as the "Fig-Leaf Campaign") was organized by Carafa and Monsignor Sernini (Mantua's ambassador) to remove the frescoe (Of the last Judgement).
When the Pope's own Master of Ceremonies, Biagio da Cesena, said "it was mostly disgraceful that in so sacred a place there should have been depicted all those nude figures, exposing themselves so sha...

It's not hard to imagine Michaelangelo getting sick of the Pope bothering him while he worked. How was an artist supposed to concentrate, when some Pope kept telling him to hurry up. So he may gotten his revenge in the way an artist can, in his work.
I saw this in wikki and thought it was funny. Especially the Pope's reply.
A censorship campaign (known as the "Fig-Leaf Campaign") was organized by Carafa and Monsignor Sernini (Mantua's ambassador) to remove the frescoe (Of the last Judgement).
When the Pope's own Master of Ceremonies, Biagio da Cesena, said "it was mostly disgraceful that in so sacred a place there should have been depicted all those nude figures, exposing themselves so shamefully, and that it was no work for a papal chapel Michelangelo worked da Cesena's semblance into the scene as Minos, judge of the underworld. It is said that when he complained to the Pope, the pontiff responded that his jurisdiction did not extend to hell, so the portrait would have to remain.