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Was Michelangelo Crooked? (Part 3)

Posted on May 18, 2008 by 100swallows

Sleeping Cupid by Caravaggio Probably the Cardinal, like the man who gave Michelangelo the head to copy years before, would never have smelled a rat. But one day what Vasari calls an “eyewitness” told him that the Cupid wasn’t old … Continue reading →

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