Autumn/Winter 2022
Restoration Conversations is a digital magazine spotlighting the achievements of women in history and today. We produce two issues a year: Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter
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Below: Detail, The Last Judgment, Sistine Chapel ceiling,<br />
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1508-1512).<br />
Right: Detail, Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel fresco, prerestoration,<br />
with evidence of Il Braghettone’s handiwork.<br />
That painter was Daniele Ricciarelli (1509-1566).<br />
Sadly for Ricciarelli, he was also to become known<br />
as Il Braghettone or ‘the breeches maker’’. This is<br />
because it was Ricciarelli who was engaged by Pope<br />
Pius IV to cover up, with fig leaves and loincloths,<br />
the ‘naughty bits’ of the figures in Michelangelo’s<br />
Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel.<br />
50 Restoration Conversations • <strong>Autumn</strong> / <strong>Winter</strong> <strong>2022</strong>
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