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  • Christine And The Queens

    The 10 best… things to do this week

    From Captain America to the Brighton Fringe, your at-a-glance guide to the next seven days in culture
  • Michelangelo’s God in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican.The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo
2 and Group
Adam
Adults
Angel
Arms outstretched
Bare
Beginnings
Biblical theme
Ceiling paintings
Cherub
Christian art
Christianity
Creation of Adam
Deity
European (period or style)
Fine art
Florentine School (period or style)
Fresco Cycle at Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo Buonarroti
Fresco paintings
God
God
God the Father
High Renaissance (period or style)
Holy Trinity
Italian (period or style)
Located in: Sistine Chapel
Males
Men
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Mural paintings
Nude
Old Testament themes
Paintings
Part of: Fresco Cycle at Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo Buonarroti
People
Reaching
Reclining
Religion
Religious art
Renaissance (period or style)
Touching
Visual arts
Western European (period or style)
Winged child
Winged human

    The 10 best representations of God in culture

    Ahead of the film Brand New Testament, a black comedy about a sadist God
  • Tim Krabbe The Rider book cover

    The 10 best cycling books

    From tricyling for ladies to the dark side of the Tour… our top books about bikes
  • The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

    The 10 best places for reflection

    From Reykjavik to Tate Modern, we look at spaces to inspire contemplation during Lent
  • Frankie Lymon, centre, and the Teenagers in 1955.

    The 10 best teen pop singers

    After 19-year-old Lorde’s Bowie tribute at the Brits, we look at other notable young performers
  • Bette Davis in Of Human Bondage

    The 10 best Oscars snubs

    Ahead of this year’s Academy Awards ceremony, we look at the most infamous Oscars oversights
  • Kanye West and Taylor Swift at the MTV awards 2009.

    The 10 best stage invasions

    Rather than spoiling an event, a stage invader can often make it truly historic. Here are 10 of the most memorable
  • The Jewish Bride by Rembrandt. Click here to see the full image.

    The 10 best love paintings

    In honour of Valentine’s Day, cast your adoring eyes over the sweetest representations of romance on canvas
  • Ben Stiller in Zoolander.

    The 10 best fashion films

    As Derek Zoolander returns to strut his stuff, we look at cinema’s greatest fashionistas
  • Robert Redford as Bob Woodward in All the President’s Men.

    The 10 best journalists on screen

    From the Daily Planet to the Boston Globe, which films and TV shows get the print newsroom reporters right?
  • Two Engaged Archers<br>6th December 1954: Actors Ysanne Churchman and Norman Painting recording an episode of the radio series 'The Archers' in which they play the engaged couple Grace Fairbrother and Philip Archer. (Photo by Fred Morley/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

    The 10 best Archers storylines

    Rob and Helen’s awful, riveting marriage is just the latest plot twist in Ambridge
  • Fresh Meat stars, l to r:  Joe Thomas, Zawe Ashton, Kimberley Nixon, Greg McHugh, Charlotte Ritchie and Jack Whitehall

    The 10 best fictional house shares

    As Fresh Meat returns next month, we recall our other favourite flatmates of page and screen
  • Interior of the Pantheon, Rome.

    The 10 best concrete buildings

    From the astonishing Pantheon to a Chilean cliff-top villa, here are some of the world’s best concrete structures
  • Lincoln Chafee

    The 10 best curveball US presidential candidates

    Justin Webb, former BBC Washington correspondent, nominates his favourite leftfield runs for the White House
  • Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally.

    The 10 best New Year’s Eves in culture

    It’s out with the old and in with the new with our selection of the best Hogmanay hootenannies in film and literature
  • Dawn French as the Rev Geraldine Granger in The Vicar of Dibley

    The 10 best vicars

    Christmas is a busy time of year for the clergy – here we rate the top revs in culture
  • Radio City Music Hall

    The 10 best theatres

    From gilded music halls to ancient stone, the Observer’s architecture critic presents his choice of the world’s most stunning stages
  • Bill Murray in groundhog day

    The 10 best Bill Murray moments

    As the actor’s star-studded variety show A Very Murray Christmas arrives on Netflix, we toast the actor’s highlights
  • Johnny Depp as James ‘Whitey’ Bulger in Black Mass.

    The 10 best actor transformations

    As Johnny Depp goes bald for Black Mass, we hail the most startling cinematic metamorphoses
  • Kate Bush Misty video

    The 10 best winter songs

    The best cold season music, from shiver-banishing soul to shiver-inducing electronica
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