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PEOPLE, Page 76The Agony and the Ecstasy IIBy Howard G. Chua-Eoan/Reported by Jeannie Park
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."