A bold new theory is reimagining one of art history’s most iconic scandals.

Rebecca Jelbert, who lives in Abergavenny and is studying for a PhD in art history, argues in her newly published book Michelangelo’s Puzzle that the Vatican’s Laocoön Group may not be an ancient masterpiece but a Renaissance forgery crafted by Michelangelo himself.

Published by Bloomsbury, the book proposes that the sculptor created the piece to demonstrate his superiority over........

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