Discover an unattributed and unattributable painting that a guy with vested interests in its value justifies on the thinnest of plausible possibilities is a Michaelangelo painting.
“It doesn’t look like his work.”
“Oh, well he was just a child prodigy at the time”.
“This looks Michaelangelo’d. I can tell from some of the
pixelsbrushstrokes and from seeing quite a few Michaelangelos in my time.”- Guy who owns the painting.
It misses so much context that even the Kimball (and its Wikipedia page) adds. This was Michelangelo’s take on The Temptation of Saint Anthony. Yes, he made changes, and yes he was talented. But compare the two.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Temptation_of_St_Anthony_(Schongauer)
You know your shit, don’t you. Well spotted.
There is so much in that composition that you wonder how a 14 year-old could’ve come up with that… And then you learn that a common thing at the time was to do your “take” on a famous painting/drawing, and it became a “aha“ moment.
Not to belittle his work at all, it’s still damn impressive, but he was indeed building on the work of others at the time, just like others did with him.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing!
Kid must of seen some shit. I didn’t start dreaming about assholes like that until my early 20s.