Michelangelo may have secretly painted himself onto the ceiling of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel, portraying himself as God with arm outstretched to spark life in a lounging Adam
A new theory posits that Michelangelo painted his own likeness into the figure of God on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel..
The theory, if true, underscores Michelangelo’s outsize ego, or at least his cheeky sense of humor. The hunch, which is gaining traction among Italian Renaissance scholars, also places the artist’s self-portrait squarely at the center of one of the most famous images in Western art.
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