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As a non-Catholic, and since I was a child, I have been obsessed with the ritual and the beauty of Catholic art. I look at Renaissance art all the time.

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Nan Goldin
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: September 12
Photographer
Printmaker
Washington
District of Columbia
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