Researchers say alleged early works present master painter's key traits and could be worth £560mA team of historians have claimed to have stumbled on 100 previously undiscovered early sketches by Caravaggio hidden in a castle in Milan,a cache they have valued at £560m.
The sketches were found among 1378 works in the archive of painter Simone Peterzano, who employed the teenage Michelangelo Merisi, or known as Caravaggio,as an apprentice in his Lombardy studio between 1584 and 1588, before the young painter headed south to Rome to win fame.
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Source: theguardian.com