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TIL that when Michelangelo painted “The Last Judgement” on the Sistine Chapel, one of the Pope’s chamberlains, Biagio da Cesena, commented that the painted belonged in a brothel, not on sacred walls. Michelangelo painted him as Minos in hell, with donkey’s ears, and a snake biting his penis. NSFW