Sistine Chapel Ceiling: Painted by Michelangelo, Not a Pig

The premise is a playful error: no swine painted the Sistine Chapel.

• Artist: Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564), Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, poet.
• Commission: Pope Julius II, 1508–1512.
• Work: ~5,000 sq ft of frescoes: Creation of Adam, Last Judgment (altar wall, 1536–41), prophets, sibyls, ancestors of Christ.
• Technique: Buon fresco (pigment on wet plaster) on curved vault—physically grueling, painted standing/on scaffolding, not lying down.

"Pigstine Chapel" is a pun. The only "swine" involved might be the occasional art critic—but the masterpiece is 100% human genius.