Sketch which escaped the bonfire by chance is 'the very first Michelangelo': Artist drew The Seated Man when he was just TWELVE and learning his （手先の）技術, 宣言するs 専門家

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A sketch which is believed to be the earliest-known 製図／抽選 by Michelangelo has been discovered - 明らかにする／漏らすing that, even from a young age, he could make his art look like child's play.?

The Seated Man has been identified by Sir Timothy Clifford, a 主要な scholar of the Italian Renaissance, as 'the earliest 製図／抽選 成果／努力s of a 青年 who would one day 現れる as one of the most remarkable artists that has ever lived'. He dates it as 存在 from around 1487.

Few would have realised that the depiction of a seated man was the work of a child 老年の just 12 or 13.?

But Michelangelo's artistic 可能性のある 現れるd long before he was to create masterpieces such as the sculpture of David and the frescoes on the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.

It is also remarkable that the sketch 生き残るd at all. Michelangelo had a lifelong obsession with destroying 製図／抽選s he no longer had a use for - and 燃やすd?a large number of them の直前に he died, to 妨げる anyone seeing 'the ways he 実験（する）d his genius'.?

This sketch of the Seated Man is said to be the earliest-known Michelangelo, created when he was 老年の around 12. Drawn in pen and two shades of brown 署名／調印する, it 対策 220 by 153mm. The 人物／姿／数字 is wear ing a toga and seems to be sitting on a 王位, while 持つ／拘留するing a sceptre

The 生き残り of the sketch is remarkable given that Michelangelo had a lifelong obsession with destroying 製図／抽選s he no longer had a use for. の直前に his death, he 燃やすd a large number of them to 妨げる anyone seeing 'the ways he 実験（する）d his genius'. (Above, a portrait of Michelangelo, in a work purportedly by Sebastiano del Piombo circa 1520)

Sir Timothy said: 'It's the earliest-known Michelangelo 製図／抽選 by a year, maybe two, than anything else we know. So it is 特に fascinating.'

As soon as he was shown the 製図／抽選, he felt that it was 'very likely' by Michelangelo.

Regarding Michelangelo's 傾向 to destroy many of his 製図／抽選s, Vasari, the 16th-century 伝記作家, tells us: 'Just before his death, [Michelangelo] 燃やすd a large number of his own 製図／抽選s, sketches and 風刺漫画s to 妨げる anyone from seeing the 労働s he 耐えるd or the ways he 実験（する）d his genius, for 恐れる that he might seem いっそう少なく than perfect.'

By the age of 12, Michelangelo was already learning his （手先の）技術 as an 見習い工 in the studio of Domenico Ghirlandaio, then one of the 真っ先の Italian masters.

Michelangelo's artistic 可能性のある 現れるd long before he was to create masterpieces such as the frescoes on the Sistine Chapel (pictured) in the Vatican

The Seated Man 製図／抽選, in pen and two shades of brown 署名／調印する, 対策 220 by 153mm. The 人物／姿／数字 is wearing a toga and seems to be sitting on a 王位, while 持つ／拘留するing a sceptre.?

Its young artist was 奮起させるd by a colossal Roman marble fragment, which 初めは formed the lower half of a statue of the Enthroned Jupiter. Although now in the 国家の Archaeological Museum in Naples, it belonged to a 公式文書，認めるd collector in Rome in Michelangelo's day.

Sir Timothy said that Michelangelo's richly-descriptive ハッチング, shading with closely-drawn lines, is 独特の: 'He uses two different varieties of brown 署名／調印する.?

He has an idiosyncratic way of 製図／抽選, with 一連の会議、交渉／完成するd chins and a very hard line under the nose, which also appears in a わずかに later 製図／抽選. No other Ghirlandaio pupil draws like that. It's an extraordinarily 利益／興味ing 反対する because Michelangelo's very young indeed.'

He dates it partly through comparisons with two other わずかに later Michelangelo 製図／抽選s, one after Giotto and the other after Masaccio.

He said that, although the Seated Man is 'a piece of juvenilia', the draughtsmanship is sophisticated enough to 耐える comparison with the work of Florentine draughtsmen of the period: 'But there's something about it that just gives the game away. It's a fascinating 反対する.'

Sir Timothy, former director general of the 国家の Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh, has made 非常に／多数の 発見s. They 含む Michelangelo's chalk 製図／抽選 of a candelabrum which he 設立する in 2002 in a box of light-fixture designs at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York.

The Seated Man 製図／抽選 is owned by an 匿名の／不明の British collector, who 購入（する）d it in 1989 in a French auction. Its artist was 身元不明の.

He 接触するd Sir Timothy after an 初期の suggestion of Michelangelo's 手渡す was made to him by art historian Miles Chappell.

の中で Michelangelo's later 作品 was this masterpiece - a marble statue of David (above, at the ドーム of Florence's Accademia Gallery, Italy)

The owner 解任するd: 'When I first saw it, it gave me a buzz that it was an important 早期に Renaissance 製図／抽選. It's all the more 満足させるing to find out that it's a Michelangelo.'

He has now lent it for the first time to a major 展示 of Michelangelo 製図／抽選s, 肩書を与えるd '勝利 of the 団体／死体', in the Museum of 罰金 Arts in Budapest until June 30.

In a scholarly essay on the 製図／抽選 in the 展示's 目録, Sir Timothy 令状s: 'When the 12-year-old Michelangelo joined the Ghirlandaio workshop, he would have followed the usual mechanical practices o f grinding colours, 準備するing lime for the plaster surface of the fresco 絵, やめる apart from learning to paint in tempera, oil, and fresco.?

'He would also have been taught to draw in the manner of his master. Michelangelo's earliest パネル盤 絵s and frescos 確認する the sound training he had acquired in the practical 使用／適用 of his （手先の）技術.'

The 発見 has been 是認するd by, の中で others, Professor Paul Joannides, the 主要な Michelangelo scholar, who 令状s in the Budapest 目録: 'Might this chance 生き残り have been made at the beginning of his 見習いの身分制度? Or even before?'

Zolt?n K?rp?ti, the 展示's curator, 追加するs: '耐えるing in mind that 熟考する／考慮する 製図／抽選s by 見習い工s were only rarely 保存するd, coupled with Michelangelo's lifelong obsession with destroying any 製図／抽選s he no longer had a use for, the [Seated Man] sketch deserves a 目だつ place in the master's ?uvre.'