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Apple QuickTime movie  |  1993-09-02  |  10.4 MB  |  240x180  |  10fps  |  1 minute, 49 seconds
Transcription: The fresco painting is painted on wet plaster, very much like the great art in Europe and the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo and others. He painted, he had 16 panels to paint on this fresco that we see here depicting the history of America. He fell off a scaffolding when he was about 75 years old. He was painting on the area that dealt with the sale of Manhattan to the Indians or Indians to the fine at that time, and later became New York, obviously. And he never returned to paint again. They saved him, but he died from complications of a very old man. A fellow named Castagini completed his wo ...