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Continuing Controversy over 'Michelangelo' Sculpture

The Italian art world is in a messy "is it or isn't it" debate over a wooden sculpture that may or may not have been made by Michelangelo.

Standing just 40cm (16 inches) high, it depicts Christ on the Cross, but leading art experts simply cannot agree who made it.

This is not a tale about fakery or imitation - everyone says the statue is a Renaissance piece of art from around 1495, when Michelangelo would have been 20.

But who actually crafted it? That is the question.

The controversy has been rekindled because of a new exhibition in Naples to display the sculpture - minus the cross, which incidentally disappeared somewhere in antiquity leaving the figure of Christ these days hanging mid-air connected to a sheet of transparent plastic.
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