The former owners of a villa near Florence where Michelangelo lived as a young man are thinking of putting up for auction a large-scale drawing attributed to the Sistine Chapel master. (ANSA)
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Among the great 15th-century Italian artists who became the namesakes of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Michelangelo and Leonardo may be the most popular, and Raphael’s art may be the most beautiful, but none is as important in the story of the Renaissance than Donatello. The case for Donatello’s preeminence in the history of the development of Western art is now being made in an extraordinary exhibit of over a hundred works, being held in Florence, Italy, at the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and the Musei del Bargello through July 31.