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"...I draw them the way God made Adam." Michelangelo was creating his first fresco. For a week he worked alone...his baptism. By the third day, everyone knew he wasn't following the rules. He was drawing anatomical nude bodies of male figures...then draping them with robes, which was the reverse of the practice of suggesting the man's bones by the folds of a cloak. Ghirlandaio made no effort to stop or correct him.