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Sistine Madonna by Raphael, 1514.

Inside Vatican City

The majesty of St. Peter’s Basilica

Michelangelo’s First Sketch of the Sistine Chapel?

_{“Architectural historian Adriano Marinazzo believes a manuscript he found stored in Florence’s Buonarroti Archive is actually Michelangelo’s first sketch of the Sistine Chapel ceiling. The 1508 sketch, a longtime mystery to scholars, was found beneath of the artist’s poems. Compare the sketch to a view from below of the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling.” (Read more)}

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creation of adam

Michelangelo.  The Creation of Adam.  1512.  Fresco painting.  570 cm x 280 cm.  Sistine Chapel, Vatican Museum, Vatican City.  

Saved the best for last, I suppose.  I was mostly trying to avoid using highly famous art works, but I had to include it as it was something that I saw in person and it inspired me quite a bit.  Before seeing it in person, I had no idea that it was surrounded by many other works of art on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.  It is pretty easily identifiable, though, even being surrounded by other masterpieces.  The amazing attention to detail and skill involved in creating something like this is absolutely beautiful.

The Creation of Adam is arguably the most famous section of Michelangelo’sfrescoSistine Chapel ceiling painted circa 1511–1512. It is traditionally thought to illustrate the Biblicalcreation narrative from the Book of Genesis in which God 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 the most well-known of the Sistine Chapel fresco panels, and its fame as a piece of art is rivaled only by the Mona LisabyLeonardo da Vinci. The image of the near-touching hands of God and Adam has become one of the single most iconic images of humanity and has been reproduced in countless imitations and parodies. Along with Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper,The Creation of Adam and the other Sistine Chapel panels are the most replicated religious paintings of all time.

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