The new Michelangelo sculptures are a sensation, but are they any good? | Jonathan Jones

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, has unearthed two original bronzes that show the great Renaissance artist inventing the art of the bizarre

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The discovery of two new sculptures by one of the greatest artists in history is a sensation of the highest order. For them to turn up in Cambridge, where they are on loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum from an anonymous private owner, is an amazing coup for the town and a tribute to the university’s art historians whose scholarship led to this recognition.

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