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The Sistine Chapel

...... The Crucifixion of Saint Peter is of Saint Peter nailed down to a cross, upside down and only covered with a thin white wrapping around his penis. He is painted as still vital in body and mind although in much pain. However, both the white drape and nails were added afterward by some unknown artist who did not realize what Michelangelo was attempting to convey: Peter was willingly offering himself as a martyr and would not be nailed down. He was completely unclothed, because he was nude before God, a man among others, yet capable of spiritual grandeur. The Vatican chief restorer agreed that the nails and white covering were later added. Antonio Forcellino, who authored biographies of Raphael and Michelangelo called these acts of censorship. Michelangelo was expressing that only faith, not nails, could sustain Saint Peter, and that faith is interiorized
It was believed that it was better to leave these additions than trying to remove them. Another art critic and author of Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and His Times, William
Wallace, explained that there was a similar type of controversy when The Last Judgment was restored. Again, there were a number of different additions to