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Aragon and Catalonia battle over the 'Sistine Chapel of Romanesque art' • June 12, 2025, 6:41 AM ET (Le Monde)
Michelangelo ‘hated painting the Sistine Chapel’ • June 11, 2025, 6:02 AM ET (The Telegraph)

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Figure 8: A simply designed interior space made vivid and compelling by frescoes on the ceiling and walls: Sistine Chapel, Rome, by Michelangelo, 1508-12, 1533-41.
Michelangelo: detail of a Sistine Chapel ceiling fresco
Michelangelo: The Creation of Adam
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