Although there are some strange errors in the text such as sixty cubits equated with eighteen inches and Jesus made the first pope (an odd mistake from an erstwhile Jesuit) (pp. 82, 84), this book is in fact well written and a valuable addition to the literature on this relatively late work of Michelangelo (it was finished in 1541). There are excellent chapters on the wider historical background and a detailed analysis of the work is provided through accompanying illustrations (unfortunately only in black-and-white). In terms of locating Michelangelo's theological position at this stage of his career, Connor follows much recent writing in finding signs of a revisionary Catholicism, but he does not go so far as some in speaking of a crypto-Protestantism. This is surely right, as we are still in the period before the Council of Trent and so the Spirituali with whom his friend Vittoria Colona associated were yet to be cast in a more negative light, even if one of them (Bernardino Ochino) had reneged on Catholicism and even been offered a canonry at Canterbury Cathedral. There is thus little of the conspiracy theories that spoil a work like Antonio Forcellino's A tormented life (2009). Another popular theme in contemporary scholarship that seems closer to Connor's heart is that the Last Judgement in its swirling movements reflects something of Copernicus’ new view of the universe. Even the fact that Michelangelo began work a decade before the publication of Copernicus’ thesis is not enough to deter Connor from supporting such a notion. His suggestion is that Michelangelo would have been made aware of such ideas thanks to a private lecture having been given on the subject to Pope Clement vii. But Connor admits that Michelangelo could not have been present, while in any case there seems too little in the work of itself to suggest the artist's adoption of the new conceptual scheme. Yet even where unproven, the rehearsal of such ideas helps to alert the reader to the range of theories currently being canvassed, among them that Michelangelo suffered from Asperger's syndrome.