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In one mailing, replacing an image of Michelangelo's God's hand with one depicting the ruins of Petra produced a 21.8% lift in sales from its Great Courses catalog.
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That simple summons and the astonished response to it are dramatized in "The Calling of Matthew, " one of a trio of paintings by Michelangelo Merisi, called Caravaggio after his native town.
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Only a few feet away is Michelangelo's small wax model for one of his slaves.
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Voices travel up from the ground floor in a smokestack effect and ricochet around the preserved glazed-white brick walls. (The "new" library prefers buzz over the code of silence of the old library.) How different from the older sections of the library where, for instance, one reading room has restored its carved plaster ceiling reproducing Michelangelo's Laurentian Library in Florence.
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The exhibition balances a contextual presentation of one or two projects with a sense of the range of Michelangelo's architectural work.
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Among the most striking of the architectural drawings on display is the study for the plan of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini (1559-60), a sheet in which one can read the layers of overdrawing and erasure through which Michelangelo refined his design, transforming the sheet into a palimpsest of rejected ideas.
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The hill is topped by Michelangelo's Piazza del Campidoglio, an artistic pinnacle as well as a geographical one.
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Not the kind of puzzle you buy at the museum that has a little print of Monet's haystacks on it, mind you, but one of those 5, 000-piece monsters that forces you to recreate every inch of Michelangelo's Creation of Adam.
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