After finishing the Medici Tombs, Michelangelo left Florence to return to Rome. When he arrived his was asked to design the Last Judgement. It would be painted by the Sistine chapel and would take four years to complete. This painting represents the day that Christ will judge us according to our acts. It shows Christ, with a clap of thunder, puts into motion the inevitable separation, with the saved ascending on the left side of the painting and the damned descending on the right into Dantesque hell.
During the painting, Michelangelo was accused of immortality because he drew naked figures. The person that accused him of doing this is in the painting, Michelangelo is showing him being skinned alive and being thrust to hell.
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