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The Last Judgment by Michelangelo was controversial for numerous causes, together with breaches of decorum by way of nudity and the Apollo-like pose of Christ. There is an understanding that is reached with the material because of handling it, which facilitates one’s thought processes. Traditionally talent of execution was seen as a quality inseparable from art and thus needed for its success; for Leonardo da Vinci, art, neither more nor less than his other endeavors, was a manifestation of talent. Rembrandt’s work, now praised for its ephemeral virtues, was most admired by his contemporaries for its virtuosity. Nevertheless, a classical …