A researcher thinks a satyr with an erect penis and ugly laugh could secretly be the Renaissance master's self-portrait. Is it? Some 400 years ago, Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi — whose family would ...
A small wax statue may have brought us closer than ever to Michelangelo, after museum experts found what they believe to be the Renaissance master’s fingerprint – or thumbprint – pressed into the ...
(SOUNDBITE) (Italian) DIRECTOR OF RESTORATION PROJECT, BEATRICE AGOSTINI, SAYING: "It's a Pieta that has suffered and is very intimate. There is definitely a strong feeling of Michelangelo because it ...
The Victoria & Albert Museum in London claims that a fingerprint from Michelangelo was found on one of his statues. Photo by Stock Montage/Getty Images Experts at a London museum believe they’ve found ...
Michelangelo’s fingerprint may have been discovered on a tiny wax sculpture in a British museum. London’s Victoria & Albert Museum discovered the possible print after moving the sculpture to cold ...
FLORENCE, Italy, Jan 21 (Reuters) - The restoration of Michelangelo's famed Pieta dell'Opera del Duomo in Florence has revealed that the single block of marble from which the masterpiece was sculpted ...