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Easter Music So Gorgeous The Pope Kept It For Himself: The 'Miserere'

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.28.2012

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Rome. Easter Week. The year: 1639 or 1790, it's all the same. The Matins service at the Vatican. 3 AM. Twenty-seven candles are lit. One at a time, th...

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Controversial Da Vinci Unveiled At Louvre Thursday

AP | By THOMAS ADAMSON | Posted 05.28.2012

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PARIS -- An intense and controversial restoration of the last great work by Leonardo da Vinci goes before the public Thursday at the Louvre Museum, re...

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Lent: Music For A Penitential Season

Lorenzo Candelaria | Posted 05.22.2012

As we renew our Lenten resolutions at the midpoint of this season, perhaps we might consider doing so as Pope Paul III did centuries ago -- reflecting on Michelangelo's Last Judgment.

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Happy Birthday, Michelangelo!

Posted 03.06.2012

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Today we commemorate the prolific artist Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, aka Michelangelo, on what would have been his 537th birthday. Wha...

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Shockblast's God Is Just A Regular Guy

Posted 03.05.2012

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When you think of the holy creator, chances are if you've been brought up Christian you imagine a guy with a flowing white beard and white robe spendi...

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Why Mistresses Don’t Have To Be ‘Hot’

Samara O'Shea | Posted 03.08.2012

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When a man is unfaithful, it's not as cut and dry as "I need a prettier woman in my life." He's usually fulfilling a deeper psychological desire.

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Leonardo Da Vinci Restoration At The Louvre Stirs Up Controversy

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 12.28.2011

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A painting by Leonardo da Vinci has been cleaned for presentation -- but did the Louvre ruin the original in the process? According to the Guardian...

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Could Harmful Dust Buildup From Visitors Damage The Sistine Chapel?

AP | FRANCES D'EMILIO | Posted 02.20.2012

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VATICAN CITY — The Vatican is determined to avoid limiting the number of visitors to the Sistine Chapel with its Michelangelo frescoes, despite ...

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Marco Brambilla's Epic 3D Video Art

The Huffington Post | Travis Korte | Posted 08.21.2011

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After watching Marco Brambilla's 1992 film Demolition Man, audiences would have felt a sense of finality. The credits rolled, the lights went up and t...

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Sistine Chapel Ceiling Recreated With Rubik's Cubes

Telegraph | 2:16PM BST 19 Apr 2011 | Posted 06.22.2011

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The Hand of God took more than 400 hours to make by a dedicated team of 11 puzzle fans. The team had to individually adjust each Rubik's cube by ha...

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Be Warned: You Can't Operate a Vehicle After Watching This Video

Edward Goldman | Posted 05.25.2011

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A good fellow American, and a faithful listener of Art Talk on KCRW, sent me a link to a Vatican website with a 360 degree panorama of the Sistine Chapel. For the next hour, wild horses couldn't have driven me away from the computer screen.

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Was Michelangelo's 'Last Judgment' inspired by visits to brothels and bathhouses?

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michelangelo's fresco "The Last Judgment" resides in one of the holiest places in the Christian world -- the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican. Now a rese...

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Tourist Trek In Dust, Dirt Threatening The Sistine Chapel

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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VATICAN CITY — The Vatican Museums chief warned that dust and polluting agents brought into the Sistine Chapel by thousands of tourists every da...

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TECHNOLOGY IN ART: Clicking Michelangelo's Ceiling

Alicia Anstead | Posted 05.25.2011

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Not long ago, I posted a virtual tour of the Sistine Chapel on my Facebook page. This isn't an online slide show or video guide through a Rome museum ...

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Michelangelo's Secret Message in the Sistine Chapel

Dr. Douglas Fields | Posted 11.17.2011

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Now, 500 years after he drew them, Michaelangelo's hidden anatomical illustrations have been found. If the hidden figures are intentional, what do they mean?

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Sistine Chapel Ceiling: Does Part Of The Painting Reflect A Brain?

boingboing.net | Anonymous | Posted 05.25.2011

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BoingBoing has posted an interesting photograph showing parallels between a portion of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling painting and the human br...

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