Seems to me that we should be thinking about Michelangelo’s followers/workshop practice instead of trying to attribute everything to the master himself.
I think this raises questions along the line of what exactly is “genuine art” now a days? Certainly we can say something is not a true Michelangelo is Michelangelo had not painted it himself, but it it possible that a copy can become just as valuable or important as the real thing? Can the fame it gathers make it valuable in itself?
Seems to me that we should be thinking about Michelangelo’s followers/workshop practice instead of trying to attribute everything to the master himself.
I think this raises questions along the line of what exactly is “genuine art” now a days? Certainly we can say something is not a true Michelangelo is Michelangelo had not painted it himself, but it it possible that a copy can become just as valuable or important as the real thing? Can the fame it gathers make it valuable in itself?