depicts God as an elderly man with a long gray beard, giving life to Adam by stretching out his right arm. Marinazzo says he formed his new theory after conducting research on Michelangelo’s ...

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 ...

Michelangelo broke ground in portraying God as “physically engaged ... shows Eve emerging from Adam’s side with her hands clasped in prayer, an image of the Church and the personification ...

It also usually marks the proportion of your hand to your forearm ... Now scientists believe Michelangelo intentionally used the Golden Ratio when painting The Creation of Adam on the ceiling ...

Michelangelo's depiction of God's throat in one panel of his Sistine Chapel fresco is awkward, which is odd for an artist so devoted to the study of anatomy. Now researchers have a theory to ...

Not everyone buys the idea that Michelangelo was hiding ... of the red blob — isn’t pointing at Adam, but away from him. So, it’s not as if the God uterus had just popped him out.

Michelangelo likely used a famous ... In the study, researchers used the length just beyond Adam’s left-most shoulder and the foot of God. The point separating the length into two unequal ...

At first encounter, Harmonia Rosales’s “The Creation of God” is striking. It is beautiful and familiar. Like Michelangelo’s “The Creation of Adam,” Rosales’s painting portrays the ...

The man called Adam was created ... And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the ...