Detail with Adam (or Saint John the Baptist)
The partial or total nudity of many of Michelangelo's figures was strongly criticized from the years immediately following the unveiling of the fresco. On several occasions, particularly after the Council of Trent had condemned unseemly images in churches, there were moralizing attempts to make Michelangelo's nudes more decorous by clothing them. Even a talented painter like Daniele da Volterra was employed in this task and earned himself the nickname "Breeches maker."