Michelangelo painted The Last Judgment on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Doom paintings . The most famous of all doom paintings , The Last Judgment by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel , painted in 1537 to 1541 , comes at the end of the tradition , and is unusually sited on the east wall behind the altar . Michelangelo . Despite holding a low opinion of painting , Michelangelo also created two of the most influential frescoes in the history of Western art : the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome , and The Last Judgment on its altar wall .