Despite the continuing debate about the work, Michelangelo’s Last Judgment, like the Battle of Cascina Cartoon before it, became a site of pilgrimage for younger artists eager to draw and learn from the composition.1 Michelangelo was reported to have remarked, “Oh, how many men this work of mine wishes to destroy,” when noticing the crowd of artists copying his work in the Sistine Chapel.2 In the wake of the ongoing criticism over the fresco, the value of the artist’s influence was certainly cause for personal concern. Michelangelo might well have wondered if he was leading artists who followed his example to artistic glory but religious ruin.