A marvelous image is given us by Michelangelo on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome: God, surrounded by cherubs, with his left arm draped around a female figure, strains his right arm ...

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.

God writes on us with his finger, in certain traditions of theology. In the Jewish tradition, that’s how he writes the tablets of the Ten Commandments for Moses—he sort of lasers them with his ...

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 ...

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.

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… ...

How do you draw God’s big toe? What about his pointing index finger? Those questions, plus a lot more, were faced by Michelangelo Buonarroti around 1510, when he was preparing to paint ...

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.

In Michelangelo's picture, God has been superimposed on the phylogenetically ancient limbic system which is the emotional centre of the brain and arguably the anatomical counterpart of the human soul.

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 ...