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Michelangelo 'self-portrait' found (3)

In folds of Vittoria Colonna's dress in British Museum

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(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.
   

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