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From God reaching out to give Adam the spark of life on the sweeping Sistine chapel ceiling fresco to a grieving Mary holding the limp body of her son Jesus in her lap, the works of Michelangelo are ...

graceful guise Thus sleeping, by an Angel’s hand was carved In this pure stone; but sleeping, still she lives. Awake her if thou doubtest, and she’ll si The poet, an obscure contemporary of ...