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Mikey Actually Hated His Job

Michelangelo wrote a poem about how much he hated painting the Sistine Chapel once it was finished. The poem reads "I’ve already grown a goiter from this torture, hunched up here like a cat in Lombardy (or anywhere else where the stagnant water’s poison)."

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