The overwhelming grandeur, scope and vision of Michelangelo’s miraculous Sistine Chapel ceiling and “The Last Judgment” frescoes transcend reason and defy human capability. Comprising more ...

In The Creation of Adam, Michelangelo’s masterpiece on the ... ceiling’s surface to give life to the stories of the book of Genesis,” Marinazzo told Artnet News in an email. “ ...

Turning to Michelangelo’s famous depiction of the Creation of Adam, Lev noted that the artist depicts “just God and the creature formed in his likeness.” Adam is shown as “somewhat ...

However, what almost everyone has missed is the hidden message that Michelangelo inserted: a human brain dissimulated in the figure of God. The Creation of Adam was painted around 1511.

Adriano Marinazzo, a curator of special projects at the Muscarelle Museum of Art, Michelangelo depicted himself as God in "The Creation of Adam," the famous fresco painting on the ceiling of the ...

Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam as seen on the Sistine Chapel ceiling in the Vatican (1508–12). Photo: Fine Art Images / Heritage Images via Getty Images.

However, a later pontiff, Pope Julius II, commissioned works by Michelangelo, who painted the ceiling and vaults depicting scenes from Genesis, including The Creation of Adam, between 1508 and 1512.

However, what almost everyone has missed is the hidden message that Michelangelo inserted: a human brain dissimulated in the figure of God. The Creation of Adam was painted around 1511.