Michelangelo was just five years old in 1480 when Pope Sixtus IV commissioned the building of the Sistine ... image of God creating Adam also features a woman, thought to be Eve The chapel ...

William & Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art presents an illuminating exhibition of the Renaissance master’s drawings for the ...

This is the painting, which has the famous almost touching fingers of God and Adam. This close proximity of the extended index finger ... on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel: Similarly, the ...

Thursday, March 6, the Muscarelle Museum of Art unveiled its new exhibition, “Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine,” to the public. The exhibition celebrates Michelangelo’s famous paintings on the ...

The overwhelming grandeur, scope and vision of Michelangelo’s miraculous Sistine Chapel ceiling and “The ... hand of an artist but from that of a god. Still, we well know that Michelangelo ...