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. The villa in the hills of Settignano was sold by the Sernesifamily at the end of last year without the drawing.
The work has traveled the world, loaned to shows from Japan to Canada, and most recently to the Metropolitan in New York for the 2017 exhibition Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer.