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  • AP - Sab 4 Lug - 23.30

    In this photo made available by the Vatican newspaper L' Osservatore Romano, Saturday, July 4, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI passes under Michelangelo's Conversion of St. Paul in the Pauline Chapel during the inauguration ceremony after the restoration works. The restoration of Michelangelo's frescoes in the Vatican's Pauline Chapel may have produced a special prize - a previously unknown self-portrait of the artist. Chief Vatican restorer Maurizio De Luca said Thursday that the face of a man on horseback in the artist's "The Crucifixion of St. Peter" , right, could well be the artist, though he told AP Television News that nobody will ever know "with absolute certainty that the face is Michelangelo's. "The frescoes were commissioned by Pope Paul III and painted between 1542 and 1549, when Michelangelo was 75. They were his last works. The chapel, generally known by its Italian name Cappella Paolina, is used by the pope and is not open to the general public. It contains two Michelangelo frescoes, the other of which depicts the conversion of St. Paul (left). Pope Benedict XVI inaugurated the restored chapel with a prayer service Saturday, July 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano)

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