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Art historians in Italy have claimed to find 100 previously unknown paintings and sketches by the late Renaissance master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.
The works, which are estimated to have a combined value of some €700 million ($867 million) are believed to have been created during Caravaggio’s early years as an apprentice to the Mannerist painter Simone Peterzano, from 1584 to 1588 in Milan.
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The treasures were found in Peterzano's workshop, which is in a castle in Milan, Castello Sforzesco.
"We always felt it was impossible that Caravaggio left no record, no studies in the workshop of a painter as famous as his mentor," Maurizio Bernardelli Curuz Guerrieri, artistic director for the Brescia Museum Foundation, told the ANSA news agency.
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