The Sistine Chapel: History of a Masterpiece

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New book presents the Sistine Chapel as an artistic revolution

December 9, 2022 Sean Salai 4

The heavenly art of the Sistine Chapel masks a human competition that produced the greatest creative work in history, according to a new book from a leading Italian Renaissance scholar. The walls of the small […]