Highlights include the Sistine Chapel, featuring Michelangelo's famed ceiling fresco series and "Last Judgment, " works by Raphael, da Vinci, Caravaggio, and ancient wonders from Rome and Egypt.

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The 1763 building was originally a prominent cultural landmark with an entrance decorated in classical portico, a ceiling cupola and a series of gilded columns leading to a hidden courtyard.

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Rather than forcing a deal, the insistence may result in a series of monthly debt-ceiling increases.

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The ceiling is lined with bamboo slats and supported on a series of enormous Y-shaped steel trusses running down the center which are painted in the colors of the spectrum.

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For the publisher of Vogue and the New Yorker, Mr Gehry built a sensuous series of alcoves made of glass and wood, with a blue titanium ceiling.

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