Ceiling Paint by Mary Elizabeth Podles

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Ceiling Paint

Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel by Andrew Graham-Dixon

Skyhorse Publications, 2009
(240 pages, $24.95, hardcover)

reviewed by Mary Elizabeth Podles

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Mary Elizabeth Podles is the retired curator of Renaissance and Baroque art at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. She and her husband Leon, a Touchstone senior editor, have six children and live in Baltimore, Maryland.

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