Review
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 is the author of A Thousand Words: Reflections on Art and Christianity (St. James Press, 2023). She and her husband Leon, a Touchstone senior editor, have six children and live in Baltimore, Maryland. She is a contributing editor for Touchstone.
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