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Michelangelo Buonarroti. The Creation of Adam.
c. 1511. Fresco, 480 × 230 cm. Sistine Chapel, Vatican City.
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The Creation of Adam is a fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo Buonarroti circa 1511.
It illustrates the Biblical story from the Book of Genesis in which God the Father breathes life into Adam, the first man. Chronologically
the fourth in the series of panels depicting episodes from Genesis on the Sistine ceiling, it was among the last to be completed.
It is arguably one of the most famous and most appreciated images in the world.
Composition: God is depicted as an elderly bearded man laying on a kidney which he shares with some cherubim.
The kidney was considered to be the organ that is essential for the body to stay alive in Michaelangelo's time, so it often represented life in art.
His left arm is wrapped around a female figure, normally interpreted as Eve, who is not yet created and, figuratively, waits in heaven to be given
an earthly form. God's right arm is outstretched to impart the spark of life from his own finger into that of Adam, whose left arm is extended
in a pose mirroring God's. Famously, Adam's finger and God's finger are separated by a slight distance.
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