Michelangelo's missing painting?

A masterpiece of the artist Michelangelo may have hidden for centuries within the walls of a local church in Tuscan, near Florence, Italy.

The Pieta is said to be Michelangelo.( Photo: Discovery )

The mural, placed on the altar of the church of Santa Maria in Chianti village, belongs to Marcialla (45 km south of Florence), named Pietà, showing the pity of the people towards the death of Jesus.

Residents of this village have long claimed that the work was painted by Michelangelo from a young age. However, the first concrete evidence of this hypothesis was only recently discovered, when a 60-year-old resident confessed to Rosario Palumbo's father that he saw the signature behind the picture while playing naughty. The board worshiped since he was a boy.

The confession caused Father Palumbo to learn the back of the altar. When a tile is removed, a signature consisting of the letters M, B and F intertwined.

" It is a unique type of cage signature. It may be an acronym for Michelangelus Buonarrotus Facibat (Michelangelo Buonarroti created this work), or Michelangelo Buonarroti Florentine, " said Robert Schoen, an American scholar.

Schoen, who discovered Michelangelo's missing Cupid in New York in 1984, studied the work at Marcialla for four years. According to Schoen, the cage signature of this work is similar to the signatures on many other works of the signature such as the Roman Pietà painting, the letter on the semicircle of the Sistine church, and on Crucifix model with a picture of Jesus in Santo Spirito church in Florence.

" The Pietà painting at Marcialla is very important to understand Michelangelo's talent development, because it consists of two characters holding the cross on both sides, once robbed and transformed into holy due to the compassion of This shows the nature of ambition and thought hidden deep inside the artist , "Schoen said.

Michelangelo may have painted the painting after the collapse of the Medici family in January 1,494. Then the artist was forced to move to Florence. According to the local people, he came to shelter at Marcialla, with the protection of monks.

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