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Deconstructing Michelangelo's process from a Sistine Chapel study

"I can see the humanity in a way, the figure breathing."

"I can see the humanity in a way, the figure breathing."

Curator Carmen Bambach on Michelangelo's "Studies for the Libyan Sibyl."

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Photography by Paul Lachenauer

Photo of Sistine Chapel ceiling by Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY

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