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Happy Birthday, Michelangelo: Notes on the First Celebrity Artist

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It is hard to guess what Michelangelo Buonarroti would have made of such contemporary cultural stars as Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, or Lady Gaga. Although he was no stranger to dead bodies (for dissection purposes), provocative nudity, or fanciful costumes of his own invention — see the Sistine Ceiling

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