“Michelangelo saw himself as the Messiah of art, so it makes sense,” the scholar said.
, a curator of special projects at the Muscarelle Museum of Art, believes the Renaissance artist depicted himself as God in “The Creation of Adam” — the famous fresco painting that forms part of the chapel’s ceiling.
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 in “The Creation of Adam.”Last year, Marinazzo had an “epiphany” — he rotated the letter horizontally and discovered the self-portrait looked almost identical to the God that is seen on the ceiling of the chapel.
Additionally, he believes that it is not beyond the scope of possibility that the megalomaniacal Michelangelo may have depicted himself as divine. after parents complained about their young children viewing the nude painting in a Renaissance art lesson.
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