VATICAN CITY -- Five centuries after Michelangelo's ceiling of frescoes was inaugurated in the Sistine Chapel, Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday celebrated the "symphony of figures" contemplated during prayer.
Benedict marked the anniversary by saying vespers beneath the frescoes, as his predecessor Julius II had half a millennium earlier.
The pope said that contemplating the frescoes in the chapel of the Apostolic Palace renders them `'more beautiful still, more authentic. They reveal all of their beauty."
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This happened to the Alhambra in Granada. It might be annoying to tourists, but means better conservation!
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