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Michael Angelo Buonarroti

CHAPTER VI
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In the second space is how He created the two great lights.

The Creator is seen with arms extended: with the right He lights the sun, and with the left the moon.

With Him are child-angels; one on the left hides his face against the bosom of his Creator, as though shielding himself from the harmful light of the moon.

In the same space on the left God is seen turning to create the trees and plants of the earth, painted with such art that wherever you turn He appears to turn away also, showing the whole of the back down to the soles of His feet--a thing most beautiful, and which shows what may be done by foreshortening.

In the third space the great God appears in the heavens, again with a company of angels, looking upon the waters and commanding them to bring forth all those forms of life nourished in that element, just as in the second He commands the earth.


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