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Teasing Michelangelo

The boy Michelangelo had never carved a figure. He asked the old teacher in Lorenzo De Medici’s garden-school for a chisel and a piece of marble. He especially liked one of the antique marbles in Lorenzo’s collection, the head of … Continue reading

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