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.

Scopes monkey trial famously put the spotlight on evolution and appeared to mark a defeat for biblical fundamentalism ...

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.

I am, therefore, using a most common (though not, therefore, less important) work: Michelangelo’s “Creation of Adam” from the Sistine Chapel. I know that Adam here is represented as the male ...

It relates the creation of the world as described in the Book of Genesis as well as the story of Adam and Eve as described by English poet John Milton (1608-1674) in his Christian epic ...

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.