Wall Street Journalさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Wall Street JournalInstagram)「Michelangelo may have secretly painted himself onto the ceiling of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel, portraying himself as God with arm outstretched to spark life in a lounging Adam.⁠ ⁠ The theory, if true, underscores Michelangelo’s outsize ego, or at least his cheeky sense of humor. The hunch, which is gaining traction among Italian Renaissance scholars, also places the artist’s self-portrait squarely at the center of one of the most famous images in Western art.⁠ ⁠ “Michelangelo saw himself as the Messiah of art, so it makes sense,” said Adriano Marinazzo, a curator of special projects at Virginia’s Muscarelle Museum of Art at The College of William & Mary who published the theory last December in the peer-reviewed Italian art journal Critica d’Arte.⁠ ⁠ Although the artist painted more than 300 biblical characters across 5,000 square feet of ceiling, the central action in Michelangelo’s masterpiece is “The Creation of Adam.” The section shows an elderly, bearded God twisting beneath a floating cloak so that the fingertips on his right hand nearly reach Adam, who represents mankind.⁠ ⁠ Marinazzo, who has a record of Michelangelo-related discoveries, said he made the connection after studying a sheet of paper containing a sonnet Michelangelo wrote to his friend between 1509 and 1511. In the sonnet’s margins, the artist also drew a man, presumably himself, standing with legs slightly crossed while painting a face on the ceiling with his right arm outstretched.⁠ ⁠ Marinazzo rotated a digital image of the letter last year and had an epiphany: The posture and pose of the sketched man looked eerily similar to that of God on the ceiling, a move the historian is now convinced was intentional.⁠ ⁠ Read more at the link in our bio.⁠ ⁠ Photo: Alamy Stock Photo」4月22日 23時01分