He then insisted upon remaining there on watch and guard until he had effected a complete cure.

The name of this excellent friend, famous for his skill and science in those days, was Baccio Rontini.
After his recovery Michelangelo returned to work, and finished the Last Judgment in a few months.

It was exposed to the public on Christmas Day in 1541.
Time, negligence, and outrage, the dust of centuries, the burned papers of successive conclaves, the smoke of altar-candles, the hammers and the hangings of upholsterers, the brush of the breeches-maker and restorer, have so dealt with the Last Judgment that it is almost impossible to do it justice now.

What Michelangelo intended by his scheme of colour is entirely lost.

Not only did Daniele da Volterra, an execrable colourist, dab vividly tinted patches upon the modulated harmonies of flesh-tones painted by the master; but the whole surface has sunk into a bluish fog, deepening to something like lamp-black around the altar.