Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475 – 1564

The Prophet Jeremiah

fresco — 1508-1512
Sistine Chapel, Vatican City

This work is linked to Jeremiah 1:1

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Jeremiah was one of the great prophets of the Old Testament. His work is bundled in the Book of Jeremiah and in the Lamentations.

In this fresco in the Sistine Chapel Michelangelo may have depicted Jeremiah lamenting the fall of Jerusalem.