# Buffalo family may own a missing Michelangelo. **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [October 11, 2010, 10:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/buffalo-family-may-own-a-missing-michelangelo/161364 "2010-10-11T10:52:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TrueBlue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/trueblue/32/7245_2.png) [@TrueBlue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TrueBlue)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 10:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/buffalo-family-may-own-a-missing-michelangelo/161364/1 "2010-10-11T10:52:17Z")
[http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/mike\_found\_in\_buffalo\_Or3Ok3NfUR21qEqBxK3u2H](http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/mike_found_in_buffalo_Or3Ok3NfUR21qEqBxK3u2H) > “In reality, this painting was even more beautiful than the versions hanging in Rome and Florence. The truth was this painting was much better than the ones they had. I had visions of telling them that there was this crazy guy in America telling everyone he had a Michelangelo at home,” Forcellino said. > > A scientific analysis of the painting proved that the Michelangelo claim was not so crazy. > > Forcellino told The Post that infrared and X-ray examinations of the painting – on a 25-by- 19-inch wood panel – show many alterations made by the artist as he changed his mind, and an unfinished portion near the Madonna’s right knee. > > “The evidence of unfinished portions demonstrate that this painting never, never, never could be a copy of another painting,” Forcellino said. “No patron pays in the Renaissance for an unfinished copy.” Absolutely staggering. Could be worth tens, if not hundreds of millions. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![ultradriver10000](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ultradriver10000/32/7397_2.png) [@ultradriver10000](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ultradriver10000)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 10:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/buffalo-family-may-own-a-missing-michelangelo/161364/2 "2010-10-11T10:55:54Z")
wow ---
**Author:** ![LAFENGAS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/lafengas/32/7573_2.png) [@LAFENGAS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LAFENGAS)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 11:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/buffalo-family-may-own-a-missing-michelangelo/161364/3 "2010-10-11T11:09:35Z")
jackpot if so. ---
**Author:** ![upstateclipse](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/upstateclipse/32/7348_2.png) [@upstateclipse](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/upstateclipse)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 11:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/buffalo-family-may-own-a-missing-michelangelo/161364/4 "2010-10-11T11:16:15Z")
NYS will be happy to get some tax monies ---
**Author:** ![camarojoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@camarojoe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/camarojoe)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 11:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/buffalo-family-may-own-a-missing-michelangelo/161364/5 "2010-10-11T11:33:58Z")
Ka-ching… ---
**Author:** ![Avatar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/avatar/32/5076_2.png) [@Avatar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Avatar)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 12:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/buffalo-family-may-own-a-missing-michelangelo/161364/6 "2010-10-11T12:16:02Z")
> [@upstateclipse](#): > > NYS will be happy to get some tax monies Not until it’s sold. ---
**Author:** ![LAFENGAS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/lafengas/32/7573_2.png) [@LAFENGAS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LAFENGAS)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 12:59pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/buffalo-family-may-own-a-missing-michelangelo/161364/7 "2010-10-11T12:59:05Z")
i would totally gift it to a relative outside of NY then sell it… just to give them the big “fuck you” to NYS. knowing full well that that move would be made public. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 1:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/buffalo-family-may-own-a-missing-michelangelo/161364/8 "2010-10-11T13:01:02Z")
This is Buffalo you already know this CAN’T end well. ---
**Author:** ![BigRon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/58956e/32.png) [@BigRon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BigRon)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 1:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/buffalo-family-may-own-a-missing-michelangelo/161364/9 "2010-10-11T13:23:12Z")
So wait, Dave Basil owns facebook and has an art collection? ---
**Author:** ![Minglor](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/minglor/32/7373_2.png) [@Minglor](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Minglor)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 2:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/buffalo-family-may-own-a-missing-michelangelo/161364/10 "2010-10-11T14:47:46Z")
> [@Blue Eyed Devil](#): > > This is Buffalo you already know this CAN’T end well. +1