Herman Studios- Paul's Art Quiz, Last Judgement- Michelangelo, the Cardinal

At the very bottom right, just above the door the Vatican clergy walk through every day, unavoidable even if one is used to not raising his eyes to the whole fresco. It might be difficult to see but he is posed with a snake twined around his body coming up between his legs & biting his genitals, thereby almost obscuring them...

Cardinal Carafa accused Michelangelo of immorality and intolerable obscenity, having depicted naked figures, with genitals in evidence. So a censorship campaign (known as the "Fig-Leaf Campaign") was organized by Carafa and Monsignor Sernini (Mantua's ambassador) to remove the frescoes. When the Pope's own Master of Ceremonies, Biagio da Cesena, said "it was most disgraceful that in so sacred a place there should have been depicted all those nude figures, exposing themselves so shamefully, and that it was no work for a papal chapel." Michelangelo worked da Cesena's semblance into the scene as Minos, judge of the underworld. It is said that when he complained to the Pope, the pontiff responded that his jurisdiction did not extend to hell, so the portrait would have to remain.

The genitalia in the fresco were later covered by the artist Daniele da Volterra, whom history remembers by the derogatory nickname "Il Braghettone" ("the breeches-painter").

Cardinal Carafa