Title: Creation of Adam
Artist: Michelangelo
Date: 1508-12
Location: Sistine Chapel Cieling, Vatican, Rome
- Idea of hand transferring life is used
- Adam naked but God clothed
- Adam is alone, God is accompanied
- God's ensemble looks like a brain/womb
- Adam looks lifeless and impotent
- God is old and wise but has a rigorous body
- adams stance mimics God's
- woman in the back - Eve?
- population in mind in the background
- Idea of procreation - adam
- looks impotent - needs God to be enlivened
- Michelangelo is interested in the emotional and psychological effects in his subjects - not merely didactic content
- Song Come Holy Spirit - sung every time papal vote takes place
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