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.

No, Michelangelo’s Depiction of God Doesn’t Capture the Essence of ‘White Supremacy’ The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo, c. 1511(Public Domain/Wikimedia) By Kayla Bartsch About Kayla Bartsch ...

The 16th-century Florentine artist Michelangelo was commissioned by Pope Julius II to paint the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling and the upper section of its walls.

Horizontally, it’s Michelangelo—flying like Superman—as God the Creator giving life to Adam. Mr. Marinazzo also proposes that Michelangelo symbolically represented Pope Julius II’s tomb on ...

The Pieta of Michelangelo in St. Peter's Basilica (Photo: Credit: Stanislav Traykov, Niabot, CC-BY-SA-3.0, via Wikimedia Commons) Each of these works was undertaken at different times in ...

Michelangelo's The Creation of Eve, from the Sistine Chapel ceiling, c. 1510./ Credit: Michelangelo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Kevin J. Jones ...