In the Last Judgment,why might Michelangelo have included his self-portrait on the flayed skin of St.Bartholomew?
A)Bartholomew is the patron saint of artists.
B)Michelangelo felt martyred by papal commissions.
C)Bartholomew is the largest of his painted saints.
D)Michelangelo believed his art to be like his own skin.

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Michelangelo included his self-portrait on the flayed skin of St. Bartholomew as a symbolic representation of his feelings of being metaphorically 'flayed' or tormented by the pressures and demands of his papal commissions, particularly the taxing nature of his work on the Sistine Chapel.

In the Last Judgment,why Might Michelangelo Have Included His Self-Portrait