Perino del Vaga for Michelangelo: The Spalliera of the Last Judgment in the Spada Gallery

A study of Perino del Vaga’s large canvas model (1542) of the never completed tapestry basement for Michelangelo’s Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel.

Barbara Agosti is professor of Art History at the University of Rome II ＂Tor Vergata＂. She has written books on Paolo Giovio and Giorgio Vasari and on Michelangelo and Daniele da Volterra. With Silvia Ginzburg she curated the recent exhibiton Raphael and his Friends in Urbino (2019) and co-edited its catalog. Silvia Ginzburg is professor of Art History at the University of Rome III. She is the author of two books on the Carracci and has written extensively on Raphael and the birth of the Maniera moderna in Rome. With Barbara Agosti and Antonio Paolucci she co-edited the recent Raphael in Rome: Style, Technique, Conservation (2018).