Valentina Salerno announced the first 'rediscovery' at a press conference Wednesday. According to Salerno, she has located another work by Michelangelo — a bust of Christ in the Basilica of Sant'Agnese fuori le mura, listed by Italy's culture ministry as anonymous from the Roman school of the 16th century. Salerno suggests that several documents in the first few hundred years after Michelangelo's death correctly attribute the work to the artist but that in 1984 a scholar debunked it.
The specific documentary evidence Salerno has to support her attribution remains unclear. The culture ministry was invited to participate in Salerno's press conference and didn't, according to Rev. Franco Bergamin.
The Carabinieri's art squad refused to weigh in on the authenticity of the statue, but said it was being protected and a laminated sign now graces the sculpture: 'Alarm armed'. Lt. Col.
edu, a non-peer reviewed social networking site academics use. In 1996, Michelangelo expert William Wallace wrote an article in ArtNews about the well-documented history of wrongly attributing works to Michelangelo. ' No leading Renaissance scholar or institution has officially evaluated Salerno's claims.
The Carabinieri art squad confirmed the bust is under protection.