11/04/2023
One of the most emblematic and beautiful frescoes in the Sistine Chapel is certainly that of the Creation of Adam. An interesting detail concerns the innovation that Michelangelo implemented in representing the figure of God.
In fact, before him, God was almost always depicted in a frontal position, shrouded in clouds and with his hand pointing downward, as if in the act of judging men.
In the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo instead depicts God in profile, with a rather muscular body and a long white beard, similar to the Greek god Jupiter.
But that is not the whole story.
In fact, in 1990, in the journal of the North American Medical Association, Dr. Frank Lynn Meshberger published an article regarding the position of angels in the Creation of Adam.
According to him, the way Michelangelo Buonarroti would have reproduced the angelic intelligences is actually a perfect representation of the human brain.
In short it would be the perfect symbology of how intelligence and creative force, are transmitted from God to man.