Sistine Chapel ceiling

Painting · 1508–1512 · Vatican, Rome · Europe

Over 300 figures in four years; the Creation of Adam became art's most famous gesture

Author: Michelangelo
Style: Italian Renaissance — Antiquity measured anew: linear perspective, anatomy and proportion as the measure of man
Century: 16th century

Made around the same time (±30 years)

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