Moreover, he wanted to join to this spirit true moral philosophy and the gift of sweet poetry, so that the world would admire and prefer him for the wholly singular example of his life, his work, the holiness of his habits, and all his human undertakings, so that we would call him something divine [heavenly] rather than mortal (Emison …show more content…
in Michelangelo: Art for Faith’s Sake). In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, in which he focused on illustrating various scenes from the book of Genesis using buon frescoes. The Creation of Eve is one of the frescoes he painted on the ceiling, and it’s a depiction of the story of when God created a female. In this fresco, a male is seen lying on rocks, against a tree, and appears to be asleep, with a woman standing beside him. Facing them, there’s a tall bearded man, wearing a white robe, who seems to be making eye contact with the female. Male models were used to illustrate the human forms in the fresco—even for the image of Eve. Eve has a very muscular shape, her body is identical to Adam’s, in the fresco. It only took four days for Michelangelo to paint The Creation of Eve, but he didn’t claim it to be complete until