The Creation of the Sun, Moon and Planets

Michelangelo, 1511, Sixtinska kapellet

‘The Creation of the Sun, Moon and Planets’ is a work by Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italy, 1475–1564). It is dated 1511. It is part of the collection Sixtinska kapellet. Wikidata links the work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘The Renaissance’.

It is made of fresco. It measures 280 × 570 cm. The work belongs to the genre religious art. The things depicted include Genesis creation narrative.

The catalogue has 104 more works by Michelangelo Buonarroti.

• The Renaissance