In response to certain accusers , when the Pope 's own Master of Ceremonies Biagio da Cesena said of the painting " it was mostly disgraceful that in so sacred a place there should have been depicted all those nude figures , exposing themselves so shamefully , " and that it was no work for a papal chapel but rather " for the public baths and taverns , " Michelangelo worked Cesena 's face into the scene as Minos , judge of the underworld ( far bottom - right corner of the painting ) with Donkey ears ( i.e.