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Detail of Creation of Adam by Michaelangelo |
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| Title: | Detail of Creation of Adam by Michaelangelo |
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| Image number: | 6OJ00048 |
| Author: | Ojars Jansons |
| Related keywords: | art, wall, Vatican, Rome, religious, picture, painting, Italy, hand, finger |
| Related categories: | Body details, Travel, Painting, Europe, Culture |
| Usage rights: | Advertising Free |
| Description: | On the vault of the Sistine chapel in Vatican, Michaelangelo devised an intricate system of decoration that included nine scenes from the Book of Genesis, beginning with God Separating Light from Darkness and including the Creation of Adam, the Creation of Eve, the Temptation and Fall of Adam and Eve, and the Flood. |