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The Creation of Adam, Michelangelo

Two fingers a breath apart: the most quoted image of the Renaissance.

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Between 1508 and 1512, Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. At its center sits The Creation of Adam: God reaches out, Adam wakes.

It is the high point of the Cinquecento, the Italian 16th century.

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  1. 2A papal commission
  2. 3Fresco, a battle
  3. 4Fingers that never touch
  4. 5Legacy
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