Quotes On Michelangelo's Frescoes in The Sistine Chapel
"Without having seen the Sistine Chapel one can form no appreciable idea of what one man is capable of achieving." —Johann Wolfgang Goethe, 23 August 1787,Read more about this topic: Sistine Chapel
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