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Station 3 â Michelangelo's Frescoes. The ceiling and western wall of the Sistine Chapel are adorned with some of the most celebrated paintings in the world created by the famous artist â Michelangelo Buonarroti. Michelangelo was commissioned to paint the ceiling in 1508 and he completed his work in 1512.
Michelangeloâs Secret Message in the Sistine Chapel: A Juxtaposition of God and the Human Brain. At the age of 17 he began dissecting corpses from the church graveyard. Between the years 1508 and 1512 he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Michelangelo Buonarrotiâknown by his first name the world over as the singular artistic genius, sculptor and architectâwas also an anatomist, a secret he concealed by destroying almost all of his anatomical sketches and notes.