(ANSA) - Milan, March 15 - Michelangelo may have hidden a
self-portrait in a sketch of an aristocratic woman poetess
friend held in the British Museum, a new study from a Brazilian
university says.
The study by art expert Deivos de Campos of Porto Alegre's
federal university of health science says Michelangelo hid a
caricature of himself in the 1525 sketch of Vittoria Colonna.
The small outline of a man hunched over a painting can be
seen if you carefully scan the ink lines of the folds in the
noblewoman's dress, around the abdomen area, de Campo says.
Michelangelo 'self-portrait' found (3)
In folds of Vittoria Colonna's dress in British Museum