“The Creation of Adam” is one of the most outstanding compositions of the Sistine Chapel. In infinite space God the Father flies surrounded by wingless angels, with a fluttering white tunic. The right hand is extended towards Adam’s hand and almost touches it. The body of Adam lying on a green rock gradually begins to move, awakens to life. The whole composition is concentrated on a gesture of two hands. The hand of God gives an impulse, and the hand of Adam receives it, giving the whole body vital energy. By the fact that their hands do not touch, Michelangelo emphasized the impossibility of combining the divine and the human. In the image of God, as conceived by the artist, not a miraculous beginning prevails, but a gigantic creative energy. In the image of Adam, Michelangelo celebrates the strength and beauty of the human body. In fact, it is not the creation of man that appears before us, but the moment at which he receives his soul, the passionate search for the divine, the thirst for knowledge.