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EUROPE
Vatican tries to woo back the art world
File photo of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel from April 2005
Pope Benedict tries to bridge the gulf between Catholicism and the arts by gathering 250 of the world's leading artists, musicians, architects and sculptors at the Sistine Chapel.


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I am neither shy nor voluble. I don't like going to parties, but I do like showing off my art. I am quite comfortable with my schizophrenia
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