Bust Reattributed to Michelangelo by Archival Researcher

March 5 2026

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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:

News from Italy that a bust of Christ the Saviour, kept in the Basilica of Sant’Agnese in Rome, has been reattributed by independent researcher Valentina Salerno to Michelangelo. Although considered the work of the master in the early nineteenth century, the attribution had fallen out of favour in subsequent centuries. Salerno's work has focused on archival materials relating to what happened to the artist's works after his death, and how the bust may have ended up in the Basilica (we will await more precise details).