16 September 2002

Over on Boston.com I just ran across a picture of workers giving David (the Michaelangelo statue) its first cleaning since 1873.

I can't help but think of all the Antiques Roadshow appraisers who tell folks that their heirloom is now worth only half as much because they cleaned it. Someone tell the Vatican, quick!

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