“The artist holds a brush that approaches the surface of the vault but does not touch it. This gesture recalls Michelangelo’s painting of God’s index, who gives life to Adam without touching hi ...

Juxtaposed with what he achieved as a younger man with the Sistine Chapel ceiling, perhaps Michelangelo felt constricted or stymied by the looming masterpiece of God the Father reaching out ...

However, what almost everyone has missed is the hidden message that Michelangelo inserted ... the point at which the finger of God and the finger of Adam touch represents the synaptic cleft ...

Michelangelo’s artistic masterpiece in the Sistine Chapel broke new ground in portraying the dynamic creative acts of God, but his work also depicts the combined importance of men and women ...

Marinazzo says he formed his new theory after conducting research on Michelangelo’s sketches, discovering what he asserts is a self-portrait that bears a striking similarity to the image of God ...