<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8cbaf58e-9141-422c-99da-71be0fdfd04c/0EC3D6A5-3A45-4497-99BA-F1280A0975C9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://sanctepater.blogspot.com/2009/07/michelangelo-self-portrait-discovered.html" href="http://sanctepater.blogspot.com/2009/07/michelangelo-self-portrait-discovered.html" style="font-size: 11px;">sanctepater.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sanctepater.blogspot.com/2009/07/michelangelo-self-portrait-discovered.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/sanctepater.blogspot.com/img/75860B3C-3B9D-49E5-A470-AE3855F3F41B" alt="Crucifixion of St. Peter by Michelangelo" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sanctepater.blogspot.com/2009/07/michelangelo-self-portrait-discovered.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/sanctepater.blogspot.com/img/556AF8BE-8AC4-4DA8-8668-7973D20E3233" alt="Crucifixion of St. Peter, 1546-50 by Buonarroti, Michelangelo" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sanctepater.blogspot.com/2009/07/michelangelo-self-portrait-discovered.html"><SPAN class="byline"><A href="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article6619966.ece">Richard Owen</A> in Rome </SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sanctepater.blogspot.com/2009/07/michelangelo-self-portrait-discovered.html"><P>The restoration of frescoes by Michelangelo in the Vatican has revealed what is believed to be a self-portrait of the artist.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sanctepater.blogspot.com/2009/07/michelangelo-self-portrait-discovered.html"><P>The face is in a wall mural in the Vatican’s Pauline Chapel or Cappella Paolina, according to Maurizio De Luca, the Vatican’s chief restorer. The chapel, which is used by the Pope and not open to the public, was unveiled this week after a restoration costing €3.2 million (£2.7 million). </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sanctepater.blogspot.com/2009/07/michelangelo-self-portrait-discovered.html"><P>Professor De Luca said that a figure on horseback in a blue turban in Michelangelo’s <I>The Crucifixion of St Peter</I> was clearly the artist. “This is an extraordinary and moving discovery,” he said. He said that the resemblance to portraits by Giuliano Bugiardini and Daniele da Volterra, as well as to a bust by Giambologna, was striking.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sanctepater.blogspot.com/2009/07/michelangelo-self-portrait-discovered.html">The frescoes were painted by Michelangelo in the chapel beginning from 1542 to 1549, when he was 75. They depict the crucifixion of St Peter and the conversion to Christianity of the apostle Paul.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0EC3D6A5-3A45-4497-99BA-F1280A0975C9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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