Learn how a team of scientists, restoration experts, and historians worked together to use bacteria to clean Michelangelo’s sculptures of Dusk & Dawn and other marble installations in The Medici Chapel in Florence, Italy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/30/arts/bacteria-cleaning-michelangelo-medici-restoration.html

Learn more about The Medici Chapel from Britannica.com – https://www.britannica.com/biography/Michelangelo/The-Medici-Chapel

See more pictures from The Medici Chapel from The Museums of Florence – http://www.museumsinflorence.com/musei/Medici_chapels.html

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