
Creation of Adam — Sistine Ceiling (1508-1512)
Date & Location:1508-1512 in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Rome, Italy. Artist:Michelangelo Buonarroti Media:Fresco (paint applied to still-wet plaster, once dried it becomes integral to the wall) Significance to Queer Art History:Michelangelo has become iconic as a “gay man” with a place in the “Canon” of Art History. Renaissance Italy was a very homosocial culture …