{"id":87388,"date":"2026-03-02T18:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T17:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/?p=87388"},"modified":"2026-03-02T18:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T17:32:13","slug":"dust-salt-and-humidity-cleaning-michelangelos-last-judgement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2026\/03\/02\/dust-salt-and-humidity-cleaning-michelangelos-last-judgement\/","title":{"rendered":"Dust, Salt, and Humidity: Cleaning Michelangelo's 'Last Judgement'"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was one of the most iconic images of 2025. Under '<em>The Last Judgment' by Michelangelo,<\/em> the cardinals chose Robert Prevost\u2014now Leo XIV\u2014to become the next pope. The painting reminded the cardinals that they too would be judged for their actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now look at Christ in the painting. He has regained his original color, the same one Buonarotti conceived in the 16th century. Until now, this masterpiece had not undergone any maintenance work since the 1990s. But the new clean-up possesses a unique twist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BARBARA JATTA<\/strong><br>Director, Vatican Museums<br>ORIG. ITALIAN<br><em>The extraordinary maintenance of the Sistine Chapel, which will last for five weeks, can remain open to the public while our technicians, restorers, scientists, and curatorial staff work to clean a very thin layer of salt deposits and calcium lactate from Michelangelo\u2019s The Last Judgment.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The goal is to remove all the accumulated dirt, which is actually a thin layer of salt formed from humidity and time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vatican Museums has given a simple reason for the maintenance project: the goal is to see <em>The Last Judgment<\/em><em> this coming Easter <\/em>as if Michelangelo had just finished it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was one of the most iconic images of 2025. Under 'The Last Judgment' by Michelangelo, the cardinals chose Robert Prevost\u2014now Leo XIV\u2014to become the next pope. The painting reminded the cardinals that they too would be judged for their actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":87395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/BRbOZtzN844","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bmanutenzionegiudiziouniversaleeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bmanutenzionegiudiziouniversaleint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87388"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87407,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87388\/revisions\/87407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}