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Geneva, Switzerland, November 20, 2008--Spanish artist Miguel Barcelo's sculptural painting (detail above) adorns the dome of Room XX at a Geneva United Nations building.

Heralded as the Sistine Chapel for the 21st century, the ceiling was commissioned for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Barcelo used over a hundred tons of paint on the 16,145-square-foot (1,500-square-meter) dome.
—Photograph by Denis Balibouse/Reuters
 
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