During the four years he spent painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Michelangelo executed hundreds ... including one believed to be the artist’s first iteration of the ceiling.

This is Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, a painting recently attributed to Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio ... the painting’s display marks the first time that a work by the 16th-century artist ...

Part of Michelangelo's ceiling paintings, the fresco depicts God giving ... symbolizing the creation of the first man. Their almost-touching fingers are one of the world’s most recognizable ...