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...full glare of worldwide publicity, than a few weeks ago, when both enjoyed obscurity. The only thing that has changed is the attitude we are expected to bring to these objects. What we could safely ignore or overlook before now commands our reverent attention because the names Michelangelo and Shakespeare have been attached to them...
...explanation, of course, is that an authority on 16th century Italian sculpture saw the Cupid statue in a different light one day and decided, after much study and research, that it was an early work by...Michelangelo. Once a sufficient number of other experts had given their support to this attribution, the announcement was made that transformed, at least tentatively, a bit of bric-a-brac into the only Michelangelo sculpture on U.S. soil...
...Michelangelo the only old master to make headlines in this new year. In mid-January a professor at Vassar College proclaimed that the 578-line A Funerall Elegie, printed in London in 1612 and signed "W.S.," was actually written by...William Shakespeare. This assertion came with an elaborate computer analysis of the vocabulary of Shakespeare's plays written shortly before the elegy, and some other scholars were impressed enough with this evidence to jump on board as well. Shortly thereafter, copies of the elegy could be downloaded from the Internet...
...easy to see why people who make their living studying Michelangelo and Shakespeare should be agog at the possibility of more material to occupy their attention. But perhaps the marble Cupid's imaginary puzzlement may be shared by flesh-and-blood mortals with no vested career interests in the matter. What indeed is going on here...
...strong prairie twang, Dole builds his pitch. "I know the difference between Michelangelo and Mapplethorpe," he says, "and your tax dollars shouldn't subsidize Mapplethorpe." The applause is real but uncertain. "Where's he going?" wonders a woman in the crowd. "What's that all about?" It's a common reaction...