Michelangelo’s attention to detail is often overlooked by the casual passersby, according to SelectItaly.com.
The tree from which Eve plucks the forbidden fruit in the Sistine Chapel is actually a fig tree, not an apple tree, as evidenced by the shapes of its leaves, according to the website.
In addition, the Pieta statue, located just to the right of the entrance of St. Peter’s is one of the only statues to have been signed by its creator, a young Michelangelo who, upon hearing two clergymen discuss their disbelief that such a young artist could make such a masterpiece, snuck into the Vatican to carve his name in the sash of the Virgin Mary, according to Select Italy
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