Step inside the awe-inspiring Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, where Michelangelo’s legendary ceiling frescoes—including The Creation of Adam—unfold above in breathtaking detail, offering a rare and ...

However, what almost everyone has missed is the hidden message that Michelangelo inserted: a human brain dissimulated in the figure of God. The Creation of Adam was painted around 1511.

Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam as seen on the Sistine Chapel ceiling in the Vatican (1508–12). Photo: Fine Art Images / Heritage Images via Getty Images.

However, a later pontiff, Pope Julius II, commissioned works by Michelangelo, who painted the ceiling and vaults depicting scenes from Genesis, including The Creation of Adam, between 1508 and 1512.

When awarded the commission to paint the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo was doubted by critics. Silencing them, his beautiful brushstrokes came to embody the peak of Renaissance art.

“It’s giving Michelangelo’s ‘Creation of Adam’. A masterpiece,” joked one commenter. “They’re taking the lyrics of ‘Defying Gravity’ and holding space,” teased another person ...

Michelangelo unveils the Sistine Chapel ceiling, but the process prompts a crisis of faith. After four long years, Michelangelo finally unveils the completed Sistine Chapel ceiling.