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would. The rental car that took me to the Getty Museum
in Malibu happened to be a white Camaro convertible,
so I had the supremely California experience of arriving
at the Richard Meier-designed citadel in the blazing sun
with the top down, which was somehow appropriate to
the Michelangelo drawing housed there, which depicts
cherubs cavorting in scandalous positions.
But the real adventure was the sheets of paper themselves. I thought I knew Michelangelo before, but the
truth is that I didn���t. I knew he was a poet���one of the
very great Italian poets of the Renaissance, though people often forget it���but [Figure 2] I had no idea what kind
of torture he went through in attempting to perfect his
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