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Have you had a look behind that sofa recently? I must admit – I haven’t. I’m much too busy than to bother with these mundane things…;) It may be worth actually having a look though because I may be lucky and find a long-lost painting by Michelangelo! Farfetched? I don’t know so much – judging by this story.
The owners have had ‘Mike’ as they call him, behind their sofa for a several years. he used to hang on the wall until a tennis ball knocked him off and they wrapped him up, tucked him behind the sofa and forgot about him. The painting owned by the Kober family in Buffalo was passed on to Italian art restorer and Historian Antonio Forcellino, who assumed it was going to be a copy – he was wrong!
The Pieta
“In reality, this painting was even more beautiful than the versions hanging in Rome and Florence. The truth was this painting was better than the ones they had. I had visions of telling them that there was this crazy guy in America telling everyone he had a Michelangelo at home,” Forcellino said.
The lost Pieta which measures 29 x 19 inch and is on a wooden panel has been x rayed and shows some alterations. Its journey from Michelangelo’s easel in 1545 to the back of the Kober family’s sofa and onwards to a vault somewhere is fascinating to read! It awaits more experts to lend their weight in proving it really is the real thing!
Read more: HERE
Self portrait from here
I cannot argue with another Great Master – Leonardo Da Vinci when he’s said that painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt – and poetry is felt rather than seen. See for yourself by pressing Mona Lisa, reading the poems dedicated to her – and maybe take part yourself:)
PS More have been added today!
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