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Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam

The Creation of Adam is part of a painting by Michelangelo on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican City. It is of Adam and God touching hands so that God can give the spark of life to Adam.


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    Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel; the work took approximately four years to complete (1508–12)

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    Adam

  • Hands of God and Adam

    The hands

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    God


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