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The Vatican Museums last week inaugurated a major restoration of Raphael’s Loggia, an epic fresco cycle decorating a 213-foot-long corridor in the Apostolic Palace, where the pope lives. A team of twenty experts has been assembled to clean the Renaissance masterpiece, which depicts fifty-two scenes from the Old and New Testaments, each of which is […]

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