Pretty much everyone is familiar with the "Creation of Adam", even if they might not know that it is a section of a fresco painted by Michelangelo for the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.
"By the same. (tempera, Can. 30 x 55.) The creation of Adam and Eve. Quaint and curious. The latter composition, a repetition, is to be seen, in chiaroscuro, at the bottom of his 'annunciation,' in ...
New research provides mathematical evidence that Michelangelo used the Golden Ratio of 1.6 when painting The Creation of Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The Golden Ratio is found when you ...