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- PEOPLE, Page 76The Agony and the Ecstasy II
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- By Howard G. Chua-Eoan/Reported by Jeannie Park
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- Overwhelmed by the beauty of MICHELANGELO'S Sistine Chapel,
- GARY BEVANS picked up his brushes, set up scaffolding and began
- copying the masterpiece onto the ceiling of his humble parish
- church in West Sussex. Fortunately, says Bevans, the English
- Martyrs Church has the same width as the Sistine. "Everything
- fits so far." Between making his living painting signs and truck
- panels, Bevans, who has never had an art lesson, expects to
- finish the reproduction in two years. In any case, the devout
- Roman Catholic has rediscovered Michelangelo's agony. If you
- drop a brush, says he, "it's a long way down to pick it up."
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