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Was Michelangelo Crooked? (Part 3)
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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