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•1508–1512Michelangelo paints Sistine Chapel ceiling
Ghirlandaio’s 13-year-old apprentice — Michelangelo Buonarroti — must have picked up a few tips for his future commission of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.
These have a public purpose, captured in the Irish poet William Butler Yeats' lines about the best-known Sistine image: "That girls at puberty may find/ The first Adam in their thought."
' My own surprising encounter with color occurred when, in a report on the restoration of the Sistine Chapel, one of the experts--an Italian, speaking in English--said that they had used a preparation that contained whole eggs, “including the red.”
Adam’s pose in the Creation scene (top left) inspired the Michelangelo figure reaching out to God on the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
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