The+Creation+of+Adam


 * The Creation of Adam **
 * What is it: The Creation of Adam **
 * Who Created it: Michelangelo **
 * What materials were used: In painting a fresco, the surface of a plastered wall is divided into areas roughly corresponding to the contours of the figures or the landscape, generally drawn on a rough underlayer of lime mortar, called the arriccio. Many artists sketched their compositions on this underlayer, which would never be seen, in a red pigment called sinopia. From this pigment, the underdrawing acquired its name, the sinopia. On top of this first, rough layer of plaster, a second layer is added, called the intonaco. This is the final layer, and would be smoothed and perfected as the painting surface. **
 * Where is it: It is in The Sistine Chapel in Rome **


 * The Creation of Adam is a [|fresco] painting by [|Michelangelo], forming part of the [|Sistine Chapel ceiling] , painted circa 1511–1512. It illustrates the [|Biblical] [|creation narrative] from the [|Book of Genesis] in which [|God] breathes life into [|Adam] , the first [|man] . The fresco is part of a complex iconographic scheme and is chronologically the fourth in the series of panels depicting episodes from Genesis. It is the most well-known of the Sistine Chapel fresco panels, and its fame as a piece of art is rivaled only by the [|Mona Lisa] by [|Leonardo da Vinci] . The image of the near-touching hands of God and Adam has become iconic of [|humanity] and has been reproduced in countless imitations and parodies. Leonardo da Vinci's [|Last Supper] and Michelangelo's Creation of Adam are the most replicated religious paintings of all time. **
 * By Adam Mercuri **