MAJOR HELP NEEDED: What is the Renaissance painting with the two hands reaching out to touch each other?

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I know that it is one of the following...but which?
Raphael
Giotto
Ghiberti
Caravaggio
Botticelli
Tintoretto
Titian
Bellini
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Leonardo da Vinci
Brunelleschi
Donatello
Masaccio

If you were wondering, it's for school extra credit. THANKS A BUNCH!

Answer 1

you really should look it up for yourself or go to the library but I'm feeling nice so....

The Creation of Adam is a fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo Buonarroti circa 1511. It illustrates the Biblical story from the Book of Genesis in which God the Father breathes life into Adam, the first man. Chronologically the fourth in the series of panels depicting episodes from Genesis on the Sistine ceiling, it was among the last to be completed. It is arguably one of the most famous and most appreciated images in the world.

Answer 2

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MAJOR HELP NEEDED: What is the Renaissance painting with the two hands reaching out to touch each other?
I know that it is one of the following...but which?
Raphael
Giotto
Ghiberti
Caravaggio
Botticelli
Tintoretto
Titian
Bellini
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Leonardo da Vinci
Brunelleschi
Donatello
Masaccio

If you were wondering, it's for school extra credit. THANKS A BUNCH!

Answer 3

Hands Reaching For Each Other

Answer 4

It's from Michelangelo's painting of Creation of Adam in the Sistine Chapel - on the ceiling. The one on the left with his hand curled down lazily is Adam and the one on the right reaching is God with his angels.

Answer 5

It is called The Creation of Adam. It was painted by Michelangelo Buonarroti. It can be found on the ceiling of the Sisitine Chapel in Rome and it is what's known as a fresco.

The fourth scene in the chronological order of the narrative, the Creation of Adam, is depicted in the large field of the vault of the sixth bay, between the triangular spandrels.

Michelangelo's organization of the Sistine ceiling frescos represents perhaps the most complex composition in Western art. The space contains an intricate pseudo structure of architecture that frames the sculpture-like forms. Out of the nine narrative scenes depicting events from Genesis, the most sublime scene is this "Creation of Adam," in which his new vision of humanity attains pictural form.

It is scarcely possible to put into words the impressions roused by this marvellous painting; it is as though current passed from the painted scene to the beholder, who often feels that he is assisting at a hallowed world-shaking event. Michelangelo experiences the stages of creation within himself, retracing the way to the divine source by the double path of religion and of art. Now that, inspired by God, he has given form to Eve, elliptical and parabolic shapes begin to multiply; the number of orbits with two focal points increase. These were copied blindly during the following two centuries and became a decorative commonplace.

Precisely here, where man the microcosm and incarnate Word made in the divine image, the Adam Kadmon of Cabalistic doctrine, issues from the hand of God as the fingers of the Father and the son touch in a loving gesture, it is significant and convincing that the Eternal is circumscribed by the ellipse (symbolizing the 'cosmic egg') of his celestial mantle and angelic spirits, while Adam forms only an incomplete oval. Through the extended hands and arms the creative flash passes from one orbit to the other. Love radiates from the face of God and from the face of man. God wills his child to be no less than himself. As if to confirm this, a marvellous being looks out from among the host of spirits that bear the Father on their wings; a genius of love encircled by the left arm of the Creator. This figure has intrigued commentators from the beginning and has been variously interpreted as the uncreated Eve, or Sophia, divine wisdom. Be that as it may, this figure undoubtedly signifies beatific rapture.

Here's a site where you can see this particular section of the fresco

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/M/michelangelo/creation.jpg.html

Answer 6

I think you are talking about a detail (small section) of the Creation of Man by Michelangelo. Its an image of God creating Adam which is on the Sistine Chapel. Try this link and see if it's the one you want.
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=creation+of+man&fr=yfp-t-414&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8

Answer 7

It was Michaelangelo Buonarroti..the creation on the Sistine Chapel ceiling

Answer 8

MIchelangelo. definitely, In sistin chpael in Vatikan. representing creation of Adam (one hand vbelong to god the other to Adam)

Answer 9

I beleive it was da Vinvi on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

Answer 10

That's a good question