Michelangelo found under the bed
A painting of the Madonna mourning of Christ, which for many years was kept under the sofa in the American military pilot Martin Kober (Martin Kober), the script was by Michelangelo.
Cloth, authorship of which family legend ascribed by Michelangelo, has long hung in the living room, but in its "noble" origins seriously no one believed. When one of the kids knocked a picture a tennis ball, she was sent for storage under the sofa and fished out by accident in 2003.
Italian art historian Antonio Forchellino, who presented a canvas for the evaluation, was shocked.
According to art historian, the picture did not finish (X-ray showed right knee next to Madonna's not completely covered with painted piece of canvas), and a copy of this could not happen. "Not a single customer of the Renaissance would not have paid for an unfinished copy. I am convinced that this is true of Michelangelo ", - said Forchellino. The historian was also able to trace the history of cloth on the documents stored in the Vatican Library.
"Lamentation of Christ" was written around 1545 for the Marquise Vittoria Colonna, Michelangelo's patron, and a year later, Cardinal Reginald Pole, the future Archbishop of Canterbury, offered paintings by Italian Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga. As a result, cloth found in some German baroness, who had bequeathed him her maid of honor, a distant relative of his great-grandfather Martin Kober. In America, the picture came in 1883.
Opening Forchellino especially valuable because Michelangelo-painter known primarily for the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, works as easel painting from it almost did not make it (only one known at an end, authentic and preserved painting - "Madonna Doni" from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence).
The cost of "Lamentation of Christ" is not less than $ 300 million
1.Kartina found in the home of Martin Kober
2.Etyud "Lamentation of Christ, created by Michelangelo for the Marquise Columns (Museum, Boston)
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