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This book provides an accessible introduction to these dangers and to the methodologies developed at the Getty and other museums internationally for mitigating seismic vulnerability

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Michelangelo's Tomb for Julius II: Genesis and Genius Women This delightful book is aChristoph Luitpold Frommel With contributions by Claudia Echinger Maurach, Antonio Forcellino, and Maria Forcellino In 1505, Michelangelo (14751564) began planning the magnificent tomb for Pope Julius II, which would dominate the next forty years of his career. Repeated failures to complete the monument were characterized by Condivi, Michelangelos authorized biographer, as the tragedy of the tomb. This definitive book thoroughly documents the art of