Last Judgement

Giulio Bonasone
Italy
c.1510 – after 1576

after Buonarroti Michelangelo
Italy
1475 – 1564

Last Judgement
c 1546
engraving on paper
Place made
Rome
Medium
engraving on paper
Dimensions
59.0 x 44.7 cm (plate & sheet)
Credit line
Gift of Gary and Michael Morgan 2009
Accession number
20096G93
Signature and date
Signed, engraved in plate, l.l., "IVLIVS Bonsonius ...". Not dated.
Catalogue raisonne
B.XV.132.80; Massari, 1983, p.71, no.79 (11)
Media category
Print
Collection area
European prints

  • WALL LABEL: A Beautiful Line: Italian prints from Mantegna to Piranesi, 2012

     

    This is exactly Michelangelo’s picture which is in the Vatican. Giulio Bonasone of Bologna took it down in black chalk and engraved it in copper.

     

    So proclaims Giulio Bonasone in the margin of this engraving after Michelangelo’s fresco of the Last Judgement. The monumental painting, completed by Michelangelo on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel, was unveiled in 1541. The highly anticipated event created an immediate market for engravings of the work, bringing Michelangelo’s invention to cultural centres throughout Italy and the rest of Europe.

     

    Maria Zagala, Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs

  • Inspired Design: Love & Death

    Art Gallery of South Australia, 18 November 2011 – 19 February 2012

  • A beautiful line. Italian prints from Mantegna to Piranesi

    Art Gallery of South Australia, 20 August 2010 – 31 October 2010

  • VERSUS RODIN: BODIES ACROSS SPACE AND TIME

    Art Gallery of South Australia, 4 March 2017 – 16 July 2017
  • [Book] Bury, Michael. The print in Italy 1550-1620.
  • [Book] Zagala, Maria. A Beautiful Line : Italian prints from Mantegna to Piranesi.
  • [Book] Robb, Leigh. Versus Rodin: Bodies across space and time.