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The Creation of Adam
Michelangelo
A ceiling fresco whose only conservation variables are air, light and the number of people beneath it.
- Artist
- Michelangelo
- Date
- c. 1511
- Medium
- Fresco
- Dimensions
- 280 × 570 cm
- Location
- Sistine Chapel, Vatican City
History
What the record shows
Part of the Sistine ceiling painted between 1508 and 1512 for Julius II.
The 1980s cleaning removed centuries of candle soot and provoked the fiercest conservation debate of the century.
Provenance
Chain of ownership
- 01Commissioned by Pope Julius II, 1508
- 02Sistine Chapel, Apostolic Palace
- 03Cleaned and restored 1980–1994
