Still, it's not surprising if the main draw of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel is "The Creation of Adam," that iconic image of a soaring, enrobed God reaching down towards the reclining first man. It's ...

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. Some five ...

Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam [top] next to the sketch he drew in a letter to friend Giovanni da Pistoia between 1509 and 1511 [bottom]. Courtesy of Adriano Marinazzo.

The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo is painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (Picture: Lucas Schifres/Getty Images) ‘Self-conscious’ Michelangelo may have painted himself as God on the ...