Warwick Researchers Help Solve Renaissance Whodunnit

For several hundreds of years, the 16th century Rothschild Bronzes have been at the centre of a ‘Renaissance whodunnit’. The pair of sculptures, each depicting a naked man riding a black panther, have been attributed to several artists over the centuries but no definite culprit has ever been decided on. The mystery remained unsolved and the Bronzes slid into relative obscurity. That changed however in February 2015, when a team from Cambridge University proposed that the two Bronzes were in-fact made by Renaissance superstar Michelangelo.
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