{"id":12457,"date":"2009-04-25T02:00:39","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T02:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/yes_its_beautiful_the_italians_all_say_but_is_it_a_michelangelo\/"},"modified":"2009-04-25T02:00:39","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T02:00:39","slug":"yes_its_beautiful_the_italians_all_say_but_is_it_a_michelangelo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12457","title":{"rendered":"Yes, It\u2019s Beautiful, the Italians All Say, but Is It a Michelangelo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it or isn\u2019t it a Michelangelo? That is the question being pondered by art experts after the Italian state spent 3.3 million euros, or $4.2 million, last year to buy a small wooden crucifix attributed to that Renaissance genius.<\/p>\n<p>Works by Michelangelo don\u2019t come up for sale often, but the occasional drawing has nabbed as much as $20 million at auction. By comparison, the linden wood crucifix, which was sold by the Turin antiques dealer Giancarlo Gallino, is a bargain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/22\/arts\/design\/22michel.html?scp=1&#038;sq=yes%20it's%20beautiful%20but%20is%20it%20a%20michaelangelo&#038;st=cse\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it or isn\u2019t it a Michelangelo? That is the question being pondered by art experts after the Italian state spent 3.3 million euros, or $4.2 million, last year to buy a small wooden crucifix attributed to that Renaissance genius.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12457\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,130,200,448],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-art","category-europe","category-italy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}