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- Look at that.
- That's beautiful.
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It's got to be one of the most
proud moments of my life...
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I guarantee you.
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Before painting the Sistine Chapel...
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Michelangelo had to first construct
a massive scaffolding...
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to allow him access to the ceiling...
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without interfering
with the chapel's daily use.
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He had to develop special wax models so
he could study the lighting effects...
:02:14
to be duplicated in the frescoes...
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and come up with a special
slow-drying plaster.
:02:19
He suffered constant deadline pressure
from frustrated church officials...
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and the Pope, who just wanted
the ceiling finished.
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The work itself was uncomfortable
and unending...
:02:29
with wet paint and plaster
dripping in the face of the man...
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who was not, after all, a painter,
but a sculptor.
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Such challenges arise in all
the great works of human imagination...
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be they the creation of our world
rendered upon...
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the ceiling of a church...
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or the view of our world
evident by making the voyage...
:02:49
from the Earth to the moon.