In The Creation of Adam, Michelangelo’s masterpiece on the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling, God extends a finger to animate the world’s first man with the spark of life. But what if the famed fresco is ...

Michelangelo’s artistic masterpiece in the Sistine Chapel broke new ground in portraying the dynamic creative acts of God, but his work also depicts the combined importance of men and women through ...

In a new theory, scholar Adriano Marinazzo posits that Michelangelo painted himself as God in his famous Sistine Chapel fresco “The Creation of Adam.” Comparison between a Michelangelo drawing in the ...

Pretty much everyone is familiar with the "Creation of Adam", even if they might not know that it is a section of a fresco painted by Michelangelo for the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.

New research provides mathematical evidence that Michelangelo used the Golden Ratio of 1.6 when painting The Creation of Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The Golden Ratio is found when you ...

Michelangelo likely used a famous mathematical ratio to paint “The Creation of Adam” and other frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, a recently published study claims. The article published ...

More than 3,000 drones lit up the night sky above the Vatican, forming images of the Virgin Mary, Pope Francis and Michelangelo’s “Creation of Adam” in a spectacle over St. Peter’s Basilica. More than ...