[Diva Betsy Ross]

It is very un-natural looking isn't it. Look at the length of Christ's legs. It would be exciting ot find a real lost work- but I don't have a good feeling about this being Michelangelo's work.

[SuziQ]

Well the story said that he might have done this as a young man. The works with which we are more familiar were done when he was older, so why couldn't his style have changed somewhat, and matured over the years?

[siunevada]

He didn't particularly like working in fresco either, is that right? The Sistine Chapel was not a project he enjoyed.

Or am I imagining that?

If this fresco is really from his youth, maybe it is what lead to his antipathy toward fresco. The figures do seem stylized.

[binkdeville]

Could bring in big money for this town if it was real..Maybe that's the reason they all believe in it..Looks like amature work to me..I say not his..