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Poor Argentine family may have Michelangelo statue
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (CNN) -- An Argentine art expert believes that a long-missing statue of the baby Saint John has turned up in the hands of a poor Argentine family, 500 years after a 20-year-old Michelangelo sculpted it.
Professor Osvaldo Nessi believes Michelangelo's "Giovannino Perduto," which vanished without a trace shortly after its completion in 1495, traveled back and from between Italy and France before arriving in Argentina in the 18th century. It was inherited by its current owners.
The 1-foot (30-centimeter) statue is undergoing tests to try to fix a date for its creation.
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