Michelangelo might simply be suggesting that our brain is a piece or extension of God. Or, more provocatively, that God is the creation and projection of the human brain.

The 16th-century Florentine artist Michelangelo was commissioned by Pope Julius II to paint the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling and the upper section of its walls.

In The Creation of Adam, Michelangelo’s masterpiece on the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling, God extends a finger to animate the world’s first man with the spark of life.But what if the famed fresco ...

God, in Michelangelo’s fresco, is suspended forever, we might say, in the incomplete act of filling Adam with the spirit. This is the ultimate divine non finito… ...

Michelangelo secretly painted himself onto the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, a scholar of Italian art has sensationally claimed. Adriano Marinazzo, a curator of special projects at William & Mary ...

With an outstretched finger, God bestows the gift of life to Adam in Michelangelo’s “Creation“ fresco from the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

Michelangelo might simply be suggesting that our brain is a piece or extension of God. Or, more provocatively, that God is the creation and projection of the human brain.

Michelangelo's The Fall and Expulsion from Paradise from the Vatican's Sistine Chapel (1508-12). There is academic debate over a female figure shown in the Creation of Adam.

Michelangelo might simply be suggesting that our brain is a piece or extension of God. Or, more provocatively, that God is the creation and projection of the human brain.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...