A self-portrait of Michelangelo may have been discovered in a fresco that was recently restored in the Vatican’s Pauline Chapel.
Chief Vatican restorer Maurizio De Luca said on Sunday that the face of a man on horseback in The Crucifixion of St. Peter, a fresco in the chapel that was commissioned by Pope Paul III and painted between 1542 and 1549, when Michelangelo was 75, may be Michelangelo, though nobody will ever know "with absolute certainty that the face is Michelangelo's." The Vatican announced last week that the restoration had been completed after five years at a cost of $4.5 million. Michelangelo's two murals in the chapel were his last such works.
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