# Arty Dopers: Identify another sculpture for me, pretty please **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 24, 2012, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arty-dopers-identify-another-sculpture-for-me-pretty-please/644997 "2012-12-24T09:21:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stark_Raven_Mad)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2012, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arty-dopers-identify-another-sculpture-for-me-pretty-please/644997/1 "2012-12-24T09:21:13Z")
> **[theSteward: Photo](https://thestwrd.com/image/21820739117)** > > thestewardblog\[at\]gmail\[dot\]com > @thestwrd > > theList > ask I’m not usually big on sculpture but I saw this one and I was like damn, I wanna take you behind the bleachers and get you pregnant. Seriously though, the thing is beautiful and I want to know who made it. Reverse image search just gives me more tumblr reblogs with no source attributions. Thanks, guys. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2012, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arty-dopers-identify-another-sculpture-for-me-pretty-please/644997/2 "2012-12-24T11:22:47Z")
Best I can find is an unsubstantiated claim that it’s housed somewhere at the Vatican Museums. But as there are literally [thousands of sculptures there](http://protopopescu.org/dan/Travel/Rome/Vatican/Hall_with_statues_in_the_Vatican_Museum.jpg), good luck tracking anything definitive down. The picture looks like it’s around 100 years old (the little plinth looks very 19th Century to me), and the statue may be stone, repaired at the wrist, I don’t think it’s marble. ---
**Author:** ![Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stark_Raven_Mad)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arty-dopers-identify-another-sculpture-for-me-pretty-please/644997/3 "2012-12-28T20:29:40Z")
I know someone whose brother works in the Vatican - I’ll ask if there’s any way he can pop into the archives for a look without being impaled on halberds by twenty Swiss guards. Thank you very much for trying. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arty-dopers-identify-another-sculpture-for-me-pretty-please/644997/4 "2012-12-29T01:23:43Z")
The Venus de Milo? ---
**Author:** ![Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stark_Raven_Mad)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arty-dopers-identify-another-sculpture-for-me-pretty-please/644997/5 "2012-12-29T02:10:48Z")
Um, no. God, a quick googling and you would have found that the Venus de Milo looks like [this](http://www.akibatoday.com/cms/archives/news/2009/03/10/photo/2008/milo.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arty-dopers-identify-another-sculpture-for-me-pretty-please/644997/6 "2012-12-29T10:15:18Z")
It looks like a sculptural representation of Adam’s left arm from Michelangelo’s _The Creation of Adam_ fresco. [http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&sa=N&tbo=d&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=np&biw=1280&bih=610&tbm=isch&tbnid=fZQ2FltzXKtNWM:&imgrefurl=http://renaissancelegends.wordpress.com/category/renaissance-wonders-and-mystries/&docid=17gh2QPb6QwdtM&imgurl=http://renaissancelegends.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/creationofadam1.jpg&w=1303&h=670&ei=ecLeUNOCOIX5igKZuYDABQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=475&vpy=182&dur=3965&hovh=161&hovw=313&tx=132&ty=104&sig=102475041878464496350&page=1&tbnh=144&tbnw=287&start=0&ndsp=16&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0,i:110](http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&sa=N&tbo=d&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=np&biw=1280&bih=610&tbm=isch&tbnid=fZQ2FltzXKtNWM:&imgrefurl=http://renaissancelegends.wordpress.com/category/renaissance-wonders-and-mystries/&docid=17gh2QPb6QwdtM&imgurl=http://renaissancelegends.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/creationofadam1.jpg&w=1303&h=670&ei=ecLeUNOCOIX5igKZuYDABQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=475&vpy=182&dur=3965&hovh=161&hovw=313&tx=132&ty=104&sig=102475041878464496350&page=1&tbnh=144&tbnw=287&start=0&ndsp=16&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0,i:110) ---
**Author:** ![Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stark_Raven_Mad)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arty-dopers-identify-another-sculpture-for-me-pretty-please/644997/7 "2012-12-29T11:51:36Z")
> [@saucywench](#): > > It looks like a sculptural representation of Adam’s left arm from Michelangelo’s _The Creation of Adam_ fresco. > > [http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&sa=N&tbo=d&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=np&biw=1280&bih=610&tbm=isch&tbnid=fZQ2FltzXKtNWM:&imgrefurl=http://renaissancelegends.wordpress.com/category/renaissance-wonders-and-mystries/&docid=17gh2QPb6QwdtM&imgurl=http://renaissancelegends.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/creationofadam1.jpg&w=1303&h=670&ei=ecLeUNOCOIX5igKZuYDABQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=475&vpy=182&dur=3965&hovh=161&hovw=313&tx=132&ty=104&sig=102475041878464496350&page=1&tbnh=144&tbnw=287&start=0&ndsp=16&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0,i:110](http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&sa=N&tbo=d&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=np&biw=1280&bih=610&tbm=isch&tbnid=fZQ2FltzXKtNWM:&imgrefurl=http://renaissancelegends.wordpress.com/category/renaissance-wonders-and-mystries/&docid=17gh2QPb6QwdtM&imgurl=http://renaissancelegends.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/creationofadam1.jpg&w=1303&h=670&ei=ecLeUNOCOIX5igKZuYDABQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=475&vpy=182&dur=3965&hovh=161&hovw=313&tx=132&ty=104&sig=102475041878464496350&page=1&tbnh=144&tbnw=287&start=0&ndsp=16&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0,i:110) Interesting - a further clue. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![APB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@APB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/APB)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arty-dopers-identify-another-sculpture-for-me-pretty-please/644997/8 "2012-12-29T15:55:18Z")
The photograph is apparently from the [Alinari photographic archives](http://www.alinari.it/default_en.asp) showing a fragment from the Vatican’s Museo Gregoriano Etrusco (which, despite its name, does contain some Roman items), possibly from a statue of Hadrian. [http://www.aeria.phil.uni-erlangen.de/photo\_html/portrait/roemisch/kaiserzeit/adoptivkaiser/hadrian/hadrian25.html](http://www.aeria.phil.uni-erlangen.de/photo_html/portrait/roemisch/kaiserzeit/adoptivkaiser/hadrian/hadrian25.html) ---
**Author:** ![Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stark_Raven_Mad)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arty-dopers-identify-another-sculpture-for-me-pretty-please/644997/9 "2012-12-29T17:47:10Z")
The Dope hasn’t failed me yet. My sincere thanks to **APB** , **saucywench** , **Zebra** , **GuanoLad** and anyone else who tried to reverse image search the crap out of this ridiculously handsome arm.