Excerpt from "When the Author Was Painting the Vault of the Sistine Chapel" by Michelangelo: My painting is dead. Defend it for me, Giovanni, protect my ho

Excerpt from "When the Author Was Painting the Vault of the Sistine Chapel" by Michelangelo: My painting is dead. Defend it for me, Giovanni, protect my honor. I am not in the right place—I am not a painter http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/poem/2010/01/labor_pains.html http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/poem/2010/01/labor_pains....