by Jon Lackman | 15 November 2007 | Renaissance
From the Times of London:
They are among the most prized treasures held by the Royal Collection, the British Museum and the Ashmolean in Oxford. But drawings that are said to give an unparalleled insight into the creative process of Michelangelo should no longer be attributed to him, according to new research.
Three academics from the Universities of Leipzig and Hamburg have written a five-volume study that casts doubt on the works held in Britain, which are among up to 40 per cent of the world’s Michelangelos that they believe should be dismissed as copies. The three academics argue that hundreds of drawings by Michelangelo cannot be circulating worldwide when contemporary accounts refer to the artist burning most of them. The three are also publishing a recently discovered contemporary document that explains how so few drawings by Michelangelo survived after his death. Its contents are so dramatic that one journal tried to suppress it, they claim.
(via ArtsJournal)
