michelangelo's first painting

Or, rather, Michelangelo's first painting? It is a copy of an engraving by Martin Schongauer called “St. Anthony Tormented by Demons." Experts now say it was painted by Michelangelo in 1487, before his apprenticeship with Domenico Ghirlandaio, when he was 12 or 13. If it is indeed real it is only one of four known easel paintings by the master.


Michelangelo
"St. Anthony Tormented by Demons"
The Met

June 16 - September 7