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  • 18 Feb 2010

    The Gypsy’s Guide: William Wallace

    Angela Nickerson of travel blog The Gypsy's Guide, and author of A Journey into Michelangelo's Rome posted a fine interview with Michelangelo author William Wallace. Eight Questions for William Wallace When I was researching and writing A Journey into Michelangelo’s Rome, I read thousands and thousands of pages -- books, articles, interviews, journals -- and one name kept popping up in my research, that of Dr. William Wallace. AKN: You have devoted most of your academic research to the study of Michelangelo. How did you come to choose him as your subject? William Wallace: I first traveled to Italy as a junior in college. I was an art history major, but on that three-week trip I realized “this is it!” I had read The Agony and the Ecstasy. I thought it was a pretty good read. But on that first trip I had that experience that so many people have when traveling in Italy. No matter how often great works of art are reproduced, that moment when you walk into the Sistine Chapel for the first time is so dramatically different. My breath was taken away.

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  • 1 Feb 2010

    Wallace on St. Peter’s restoration

    When restoration of a Michelangelo painting in St. Peter’s at the Vatican revealed the later addition of some elements, the resulting dispute pit art against theology and history. Michelangelo expert William Wallace comments in the Independent.

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  • 2 Dec 2009
    William E. Wallace

    Michelangelo Podcast Series #10

    In this weekly podcast series, Michelangelo expert William Wallace fills us in on great works of the master. Wallace is author of "Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and His Times," available now!

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  • 24 Nov 2009
    William E. Wallace

    Michelangelo Podcast Series #9

    In this weekly podcast series, Michelangelo expert William Wallace discusses major works of the master. This week: the Florentine Pieta. Wallace is author of "Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and His Times".

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  • 18 Nov 2009
    William E. Wallace

    Michelangelo Podcast Series #8

    In this weekly podcast series, Michelangelo expert William Wallace discusses major works of the master. This week: Michelangelo's great architecture project - the Roman Campidoglio plaza.

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  • 11 Nov 2009
    William E. Wallace

    Michelangelo Podcast Series #7

    In this weekly podcast series, Michelangelo expert William Wallace discusses major works of the master. Wallace’s Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and His Times will be widely available later this fall.

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  • 4 Nov 2009
    William E. Wallace

    Michelangelo Podcast Series #6

    In this weekly podcast series, Michelangelo expert William Wallace discusses major works of the master. This week: the Delphic Sibyl of the Sistine Chapel.

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  • 28 Oct 2009
    William E. Wallace

    Michelangelo Podcast Series #5

    In this weekly podcast series, Michelangelo expert William Wallace discusses major works of the master. This week: The Creation of Adam from the Sistine Chapel Ceiling.

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