Study of a Mourning Woman, about 1500–1505, Michelangelo Buonarroti. Pen and brown ink, heightened with white lead opaque watercolor. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Mysteries, Discoveries, and Time Travel
GETTY CENTER
Museum Lecture Hall
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How do you discover a lost Michelangelo drawing? And how did it come to be lost in the first place? Julian Brooks, senior curator of drawings, explores the detective work that unlocks (some of) the mysteries in the field of Italian Renaissance drawings.