MICHELANGELO Buonarroti
(b. 1475, Caprese, d. 1564, Roma)

Sacrifice of Noah (detail)

1509
Fresco
Cappella Sistina, Vatican

The figures of the youth dragging the ram and the one taking the viscera of the animals were painted by Domenico Carnevali around 1568, after the original figures were lost as a result of the detachment of the intonaco caused by instability in the structure of the wall.

The work of assistants has been detected in the one of the youth on the left who, lighting the fire under the altar with a torch, shields his face from the heat with his hand.