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In Michelangelo’s two frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, the ceiling and the Last Judgment, an obvious change occurs in Michelangelo’s style of painting. This change is exemplified primarily in the way Michelangelo portrays the male nude body. The changes in the presentation of humanism by Michelangelo in these two paintings were heavily influenced by the historical events that Michelangelo was living through at the time of the paintings. Due to the historical events of the early 16th century, the harmonious, heroic, male nudes used as frames on the Sistine ceiling transformed into explosive, burly, fragmented and almost monstrous nude men in the Last Judgment. Michelangelo’s fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is a biblical timeline that was commissioned to illustrate the political dominance that Rome possessed at the turn of the 16th century. The painting on the Sistine ceiling contains many male nudes which are central parts of th