The Creation of Adam
“The Creation of Adam” is the most famous episode from Genesis among those painted by Michelangelo on the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling in the Vatican Museums of Rome.
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‣ This fresco was praised already by the artist’s contemporaries, who saw represented one of the highest ideals of the Renaissance era, that of human dignity.
‣ Different interpretations have been given to the dynamic form of the great reddish mantle that “embraces” the divine group with God in the center.
For many people it resembles the shape of a human brain, just to indicate the idealization of the subject. Others think it’s a shell but, according to the most recent publications, it would be the form of a uterus, organ precisely dedicated to the “creation”.
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⇒ Date: 1512
⇒ Material: Fresco
⇒ Dimensions: 280 cm × 570 cm (9 ft 2 in × 18 ft 8 in)
⇒ Site: Sistine Chapel