{"id":230805,"date":"2026-04-09T17:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/?p=230805"},"modified":"2026-04-09T17:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:30:30","slug":"sensational-discovery-in-rome-a-bust-of-jesus-attributed-to-michelangelo-passionate-researcher-valentina-salerno-claims-that-there-are-20-unknown-works-by-michelangelo-in-a-secret-room-in-the-vatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/sensational-discovery-in-rome-a-bust-of-jesus-attributed-to-michelangelo-passionate-researcher-valentina-salerno-claims-that-there-are-20-unknown-works-by-michelangelo-in-a-secret-room-in-the-vatic\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensational discovery in Rome: A bust of Jesus, attributed to Michelangelo. Passionate researcher Valentina Salerno claims that there are 20 unknown works by Michelangelo in a secret room in the Vatican"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Italian researcher \u2013 an art historian \u2013 claims that a bust of Jesus from a church in Rome is the work of the renowned artist Michelangelo.<\/p>\n

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Passionate researcher Valentina Salerno claims to have rediscovered a sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti, after centuries of being considered anonymous. The marble bust of Jesus is currently on display at the church of Sant’Agnese Fuori le Mura in Rome.<\/p>\n

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According to Valentina Salerno, the marble statue of Jesus at the church of Sant’Agnese Fuori le Mura is actually the work of Michelangelo, one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance.<\/p>\n

This work was previously classified by the Italian Ministry of Culture as an anonymous sculpture belonging to the 16th-century Romanesque school. However, Salerno argues that historical documents from the centuries after Michelangelo’s death already recognize the statue as his work.<\/p>\n

In her research, Valentina Salerno also suggests that before his death in 1564, Michelangelo bequeathed many of his works to his students and close associates. According to her, archival documents show that some of his students and heirs entered into an agreement to protect and preserve the works after his death.<\/p>\n

Salerno also mentioned the existence of a secret room in the Vatican, a building Michelangelo himself worked on, used to store these works. According to the description, the room had three locks and could only be opened when three keys were used simultaneously, owned by three different students. It is believed that there are 20 more works in this secret room in the Vatican, which also belong to Michelangelo.<\/p>\n

However, Valentina Salerno’s statement has made some Renaissance experts cautious. Many prominent scholars have declined to comment until there is an official scientific assessment.<\/p>\n

Art history professor William Wallace (Washington University in St. Louis) believes that Salerno’s method of document research is reasonable, but the conclusions require further verification.<\/p>\n

He also expressed scepticism about the theory that many other works by Michelangelo remain undiscovered. According to him, in his last years, Michelangelo mainly supervised large architectural projects in Rome and did not create many new sculptures.<\/p>\n

Researcher Valentina Salerno says it is now the turn of experts to pronounce, after examining the bust. One of Michelangelo’s most famous sculptures, the Piet\u00e0 (Madonna della Piet\u00e0), made between 1498-1499 in Carrara marble, with Jesus in the arms of the Virgin Mary on Golgotha, is currently exhibited in St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City.<\/p>\n

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An Italian researcher \u2013 an art historian \u2013 claims that a bust of Jesus from a church in Rome is the work of the renowned artist Michelangelo. Passionate researcher Valentina Salerno claims to have rediscovered a sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti, after centuries of being considered anonymous. The marble bust of Jesus is currently on display […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1363],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-1603-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230806,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230805\/revisions\/230806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}