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	Podcast:		Curious Objects
	Episode:		The Mystery of the Michelangelo Bust
	Category:		Arts
	Duration:		00:58:58
	Publish Date:		2020-03-25 00:00:00
	Description:		This month, Ben and Michael speak with Jennifer Tonkovich, curator of prints and drawings at the Morgan Library and Museum. The focus is an odd bronze bust of a crying child—once believed to have been sculpted by Michelangelo—but the trio’s conversation quickly branches out, touching on subjects as diverse as the collector/connoisseur divide in the 19th century; the role of “creative restorers” in the history of antique fakery; and the intercontinental flow of fine and dec arts treasures from Europe to the collections of tycoons like Morgan, and from there into the public domain.
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