Anecdote Of Michael Angelo

Michael Angelo, at a time when Italy paki so mnch attention to ancient ■ art tfaat modern had no chance of being jodged fairly, had, it is said, resart to a stratagem to teach the critdcs the faüacy of shaping their judgments by f ashioii or reputatíon. He scnlptured a statae repnesenüngaleepiiig besuty,and breakingïaff an arm bnried it iu a place'where eicawaüons were being made. It was soon fonnd and laoded by criücs and the pnbüc as a valnable relie of antíqnity, far saperior to anything done for centories. When Angelo thooght it hadgone far enongh he prodneed the broken arm, and, to the great moxtification of the critica, revealed himself as the scolptor.