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What’s the biggest book you’ve ever seen? See how this one stacks up as Collections Manager Holly Phillips shares the rare and majestic high-fidelity pages of “The Sistine Chapel.”

Printed in six-color offset lithography, this trilogy features frescoes from the Sistine Chapel in one-to-one scale, color matched to original frescoes.
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📖 Callaway Arts & Entertainment (2020). Page from one of three volumes of “The Sistine Chapel.” Six-color offset lithography on paper.

Watson Library is grateful to Estrellita and Daniel Brodsky for funding the acquisition of The Sistine Chapel Trilogy. #MuseumLibraryWeek

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