MICHELANGELO Buonarroti
(b. 1475, Caprese, d. 1564, Roma)

The fourth bay of the ceiling

1508-12
Fresco
Cappella Sistina, Vatican

Between the two triangular spandrels with groups of ancestors of Christ, the huge central panel contains, at the side of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, the representation of the Fall of Adam and Eve and the Expulsion from the Garden of Eden.




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