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The most memorable moment of Michelangelo Buonarroti’s Sistine Chapel ceiling is, for most—possibly all—modern viewers, the creation of Adam. The vital distance between the hands of God and the first man is one of Michelangelo’s most potent inventions. Yet sixteenth-century commentators on the ceiling were struck more powerfully by the figure of the prophet Jonah (fig. 1) over the altar wall. Vasari expressed his admiration for the way the figure tips away from the actual surface on which it is painted, which itself tips toward the viewer: