The Sistine Chapel restored.

Interior Design | October 1, 1984| | Copyright

Hidden behind a sixty-foot curtain in the Sistine Chapel on an elaborate construction of scaffolding, a twelve-year documentary is being filmed by a Japanese TV company. For the first time in centuries, Michelangelo's frescoes are undergoing a restoration and cleaning that has revealed stunning colors and bold brushwork vastly different from their previously murky aspect.

After four years of painstakingly slow work, the cleaning of the fourteen lunettes is almost complete. These are the semicircular areas above the windows of the Sistine Chapel which include ...

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