Michelangelo Paints the Sistine
“The Sistine Chapel, October 1512. The artist lies on a scaffold platform, brush to wet plaster, finishing the Creation of Adam. Foreground shows pigments in tin cups and a chalked cartoon pinned overhead; midground reveals plasterers smoothing fresh intonaco for the next giornata; below, cardinals gaze upward as the new ceiling is unveiled in lamplight.”
