In a way that neatly illustrates that we are not as clever by half as we
think we are .. a couple of statues have now been re-attributed as being the
only surviving bronzes by Michelangelo.
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| Michelangelo's Statues or Dutch Nobodies? |
I say re-attributed, because art experts in the in the 19th century has been
happily convinced that that was exactly what they were, but 20th century
art scholars, with that intellectual arrogance and historical revisionism
that they have so often portrayed, dismissed this idea, and instead attributed them
to an almost unknown Dutch sculptor Willem Danielsz Van Tetrode .... on what
grounds its hard to say.
