Michelangelo discovered in New York. (Arts & Leisure).(Michelangelo Buonarroti drawings at Smithsonian Institution Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York)(Brief Article)

Europe | September 1, 2002| | Copyright

In a find worthy of Antiques Roadshow, an art historian recently scored the equivalent of discovering lost treasure in a cardboard box.

While completing a sabbatical at the Smithsonian's CooperHewitt National Design Museum in New York this April, director of the National Galleries of Scotland Sir Timothy Clifford was sifting through a box of artwork by unknown artists, when he came across a drawing of an elaborate candelabrum. Turns out the drawing of black chalk, brush and brown wash with incised line on cream lined paper is a rare, unsigned drawing by none other ...

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