Michelangelo

The Creation of Adam

1508–1512 (ceiling campaign)

Dating

Date range

Made in

Sistine Chapel, Vatican City

Held at

Sistine Chapel

Medium

Fresco

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

Public domainLicense details

Michelangelo. The Creation of Adam. Image credit: Michelangelo. Wikimedia Commons. Public domain (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/). Resized and JPEG-compressed; composition preserved.

Location checked Sep 13, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.