Researchers claim to have come across a figure of great importance in Michelangelo’s nearly 500-year-old painting The Last Judgment.
Located on an entire altar wall in the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, the artistic masterpiece took over four years to complete and depicts the second coming of Jesus Christ, containing around 300 individuals either ascending to heaven or descending to hell on the day of their “last judgment.”
Experts have now pointed out that Christ disciple Mary Magdalene is included in the painting as well — but that she’d been “hiding in plain sight” all along.
