Creation of Adam - Renaissance Painting by Michelangelo

Running Head: CREATION OF ADAM
Creation of Adam
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The Creation of Adam is an iconic painting of the Renaissance period by one of the famous
painter of the high renaissance period, Michelangelo Di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (Di
Bella et al.). The art is a part of the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling and was painted in 1508-1512.
The art had the dimensions of 280 cm x 570 cm and it was a Fresco painting where
the artist painted on damp plaster using Wash Technique which made a semi-transparent
layer of colour in the painting which enable the artist to add bright colours and shades using
the various range of brushes (Wing). Michelangelo used Cartoons to transform the design
onto a plaster surface in full size.
Michelangelo was an Italian artist who was sculptor, architect, painter and a poet of
high renaissance period who significantly influenced the creativity related to the western
visual arts. The artist born in the Florentine Republic. His notable tasks were David, Pieta,
The Last Judgement and the Sistine Chapel ceiling. The artist projected the one of the most
favoured subjects of art in Florence in form of David which was a statue of Biblical hero
David standing nude (Corti et al.). The Pieta is one of the most famous works in the Christian
community which gives us the view of the dead body of Jesus in the lap of Mother Mary after
Crucifixion. The Last Judgement is the illustration of the second coming of Jesus after the
death by the final and eternal judgement from the God of Humanity.
The creation gave two different portrayal where the first one is considered to be the
portrayal of the human brain the next one is the portrayal of the birth process. The
background appearance of God is thought to be of the shape of the human brain as the
outlines of it relates to the shape of the cerebrum in the outer and inner surface of brain. In
the next case the cloth appearing around the God is seemingly similar to the shape of human
Uterus and the green coloured scarf can be thought to be the newly cut Umbilical Cord (Di
Bella et al.). It is an art that can be considered to express the scientific process of human birth