A fresco of 280 × 570 cm painted by Michelangelo around 1511 at the centre
of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, part of the nine-panel Genesis cycle
commissioned by Julius II. God the Father, suspended in mid-air among
angels, reaches his right hand out towards Adam, newly made and still lying
on the ground. Their fingers never meet: the moment stays a millimetre
short, for good.
