The Creation of Adam

The Creation of Adam is an often reproduced Detail of the ceiling fresco by the painter Michelangelo Buonarroti in the Sistine Chapel. It belongs to a cycle of 9 single frescoes, which implement figuratively Gen 1-9 EU. Shown is how God the Father comes to life with an outstretched index finger Adam.

Description

The picture shows on the left side of Adam, who extends his left index finger to reach God. God the Father stretches, powerful and graceful, his right index finger to allow Adam to skip the spark of life.

God the Father is floating, surrounded by numerous putti, in front of a large red cloth in the background. Under his left arm looks at a young woman's figure to Adam.

The Creation of Adam is in spatial and thematic context of the creation of Eve from the primary image, the fall of man and the expulsion from paradise.

The female figure under the arm of the Creator is seen by many art historians as the prefiguration of the still unborn Eva, who casts a fearful look on Adam. Your poem is "The Virgin " by C. F. Meyer a monument.

Others

According to investigations of a neuro physician, the composition of the depiction of God the Father is down to the detail color in the corresponding cross-section of the human brain.