Preface and acknowledgments / Sheila Schwartz -- Introduction / Alexander Nagel -- Disconnections: the Doni Madonna and Leonardo's St. Anne -- The Sistine Deluge -- Who's who in The creation of Adam -- All about Eve -- A new Michelangelo -- Why Michelangelo huddled those ancestors under that ceiling -- The Last Judgment as merciful heresy -- A corner of The Last Judgment -- The Last Judgment and environs -- The line of fate in Michelangelo's painting -- Michelangelo's last paintings.