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Shelly Tygielski, Indiana University and Pamala Wiepking, Indiana University; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Anna Swartwood House, University of South Carolina
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Mark Schroeder, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Brian Herman, University of Minnesota
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Jan Lowery, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
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Richard F. Hamm, University at Albany, State University of New York
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P. Daniel Patterson, University of Pittsburgh
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Why Michelangelo’s ‘Last Judgment’ endures
Virginia Raguin, College of the Holy Cross
Michelangelo’s fresco of “The Last Judgment,” covering the wall behind the altar...
