BUST OF CHRIST THE SAVIOUR by MICHELANGELO 2026_ Postcard

BUST OF CHRIST THE SAVIOUR by MICHELANGELO 2026
or CHRIST THE SAVIOR
Computer colorized by Mark Edward Westerfield 2026 (rose D8AC99)
or (maroon 661506).
Computer colorization by Mark Edward Westerfield 2026
Lost Michelangelo re-attributed by found paperwork historic documents.

Marble bust of Christ the Savior. It sat hidden in plain sight at Rome's Basilica of Sant'Agnese fuori le mura.

THE LAMB OF GOD John 1-29 NKJV

29 "The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, 'Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!'"

Michelangelo full name Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni.
(6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564)
He was lauded by contemporary biographers as the most accomplished artist of his era.

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born on 6 March 1475[c] in Caprese, known today as Caprese Michelangelo, a small town situated in Valtiberina,[12] near Arezzo, Tuscany.[13] For several generations, his family had been small-scale bankers in Florence; but the bank failed, and his father Ludovico briefly took a government post in Caprese.[3] At the time of Michelangelo's birth, his father was the town's judicial administrator and podestà (local administrator) of Chiusi della Verna. Michelangelo's mother was Francesca di Neri del Miniato di Siena.[14] The Buonarrotis claimed to descend from the Countess Matilde di Canossa—a claim that remains unproven, but which Michelangelo believed.

Michelangelo was moderate in his personal life, and once told his apprentice, Ascanio Condivi: "However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man."

Condivi said he was indifferent to food and drink, eating "more out of necessity than of pleasure"[88] and that he "often slept in his clothes and ... boots."[88] His biographer Paolo Giovio says, "His nature was so rough and uncouth that his domestic habits were incredibly squalid, and deprived posterity of any pupils who might have followed him."[90] This, however, may not have affected him, as he was by nature a solitary and melancholy person, bizzarro e fantastico, a man who "withdrew himself from the company of men."

His Love Sonnets ...displaying deep loving feeling, was written to the young Roman patrician Tommaso dei Cavalieri (c. 1509–1587), who was 23 years old when Michelangelo first met him in 1532, at the age of 57.

According to Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Michelangelo and Raphael met once: the former was alone, while the latter was accompanied by several others. Michelangelo commented that he thought he had encountered the chief of police with such an assemblage, and Raphael replied that he thought he had met an executioner, as they are wont to walk alone.

Documents uncovered during this research pointed to a locked, three-key chamber where Michelangelo's associates secretly stashed his drawings and sculptures to safeguard them. Salerno's study suggests the bust does not simply portray Christ, but was actually modeled on Tomaso de' Cavalieri, a young Roman nobleman and a close collaborator for whom Michelangelo held a deep affection.

arble bust of Christ the Savior. It sat hidden in plain sight at Rome's Basilica of Sant'Agnese fuori le mura.

Three biographies were published during his lifetime. One of them, by Giorgio Vasari, proposed that Michelangelo's work transcended that of any artist living or dead, and was "supreme in not one art alone but in all three" (sculpture, painting frescoes, architecture) (... as well as Love Sonnets).

A marble bust of Christ the Saviour located in Rome's Basilica of Sant'Agnese fuori le Mura has been re-attributed to Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti. Previously considered the work of an anonymous 16th-century Roman artist, the piece was formally reclassified following a decade of rigorous documentary research. The significant re-attribution of the sculpture highlights the detective work of independent researcher Valentina Salerno, who unveiled the findings. Key aspects of the discovery include: Archival Evidence: Salerno based her conclusions on notarial records, posthumous inventories, and historic correspondence spanning back to 1564, rather than stylistic analysis alone .Challenging Historical Assumptions: The documents revealed a discreet network used to safeguard the artist's final works, directly challenging the long-held belief that Michelangelo systematically destroyed his late-stage sketches and sculptures. Provenance: The records demonstrated that the bust remained safely hidden in the basilica's liturgical space and secondary storage, keeping it entirely off the public art market. The Legacy of Michelangelo: The research into the Christ the Saviour bust is expected to open the door to attributing other lost or forgotten works to Michelangelo Buonarroti's portfolio.