But her version depicts the deity not as a white-haired white man, but as a black woman, reaching out to touch another, younger black woman. The painting has garnered more than 7,000 likes since ...

Harmonia Rosales, a Chicago artist, reimagined the famous “Creation of Adam” painting that adorns the Sistine Chapel to depict not a white God reaching out to touch a white Adam but a black ...

Robin DiAngelo slammed Michelangelo’s “The Creation of Adam” as “white supremacist” — and repeatedly misidentified the Old Testament’s Adam in the process.

The original painting can be seen in the Sistine Chapel (located in in Vatican City), but Harmonia's version replaces Adam, God, and the other male characters with an entire cast of black women.

An artist has been subjected to abuse after painting her own version of Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam, reimagining both God and the First Man as black women. When Harmonia Rosales, from ...

An artist is replacing the white men in classical paintings with black women, in order to address the lack of representation women of colour face. Harmonia Rosales, 33, lives and works in Chicago.

Renaissance art largely excluded Black people, even as it emerged during the early phases of the transatlantic slave trade which ultimately brought 10.7 million African men, women and children to ...

Though based in scholarship, Marinazzo acknowledged that his “hypothesis is not a black-and-white proposition.” “My article wants to open a conversation,” he said. Adriano Marinazzo at ...