"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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