# The Last Judgment is unveiled on 31 October 1541 as a dated altar-wall fresco

Date: 1541

## The fact

On 31 October 1541 the Last Judgment was unveiled as [Michelangelo](/people/michelangelo)'s altar-wall fresco for Paul III. 1565 drapes are not this night. The ceiling remains 1512. Michelangelo's documented role is: He frescoed the altar wall for Paul III. The chapel remained a papal liturgical room; later drapery campaigns after his death are not 1541. Biagio's insult is a neighbouring polar row.

## Context

The Sistine is still Julius's chapel fabric. Sharing the wall with Paul III and unnamed plasterers is required. The setting of The Last Judgment is unveiled on 31 October 1541 as a dated altar-wall fresco is the public file around 1541-10-31. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [social-cohesion](/drivers/social-cohesion) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not treat Daniele da Volterra's 1565 drapes as 1541. He was dead. Do not twin with the ceiling. Mixed effects of The Last Judgment is unveiled on 31 October 1541 as a dated altar-wall fresco are separate paths.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Vatican Museums — Last Judgment at https://www.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/en/collezioni/musei/cappella-sistina.html (Vatican Museums). Independent locator: Britannica — Michelangelo, Last Judgment at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Michelangelo (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: Vatican Museums — Last Judgment (https://www.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/en/collezioni/musei/cappella-sistina.html; Vatican Museums). Independent carrier: Britannica — Michelangelo, Last Judgment (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Michelangelo; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Vatican Museums — Last Judgment (https://www.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/en/collezioni/musei/cappella-sistina.html; Vatican Museums).

## Significance

Improving path from The Last Judgment is unveiled on 31 October 1541 as a dated altar-wall fresco on 1541-10-31. A public altar-wall Judgment is a cohesion path as chapel liturgy. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

The attached driver is social-cohesion. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of The Last Judgment is unveiled on 31 October 1541 as a dated altar-wall fresco under 1541-10-31 for Michelangelo. Established: a sourced public record of The Last Judgment is unveiled on 31 October 1541 as a dated altar-wall fresco under 1541-10-31.

Shared responsibility is part of The Last Judgment is unveiled on 31 October 1541 as a dated altar-wall fresco. Naming Michelangelo does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1541-10-31 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## People

- Michelangelo: https://factrail.ai/people/michelangelo

## Drivers

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://www.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/en/collezioni/musei/cappella-sistina.html
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Michelangelo

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/mic-last-judgment-1541