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Find out more »Despite stormy relations with his papal patron and his own insistence that “I’m no painter,” Michelangelo’s Sistine Ceiling remains perhaps the greatest work of art ever executed. Now gorgeously restored, the frescoes retell the biblical Book of Genesis with plenty of Michelangelo’s favorite motif, the male nude.
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