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Show L 1 Anecdote of Michael Angelo. I Michael Angolo, at a time when Italy I paid so much attention to ancient art , J that modern had no chance of being - judgod fairly, had, it is said, resort to a stratagem to teach the critics the fallacy I of shaping their judgments by fashion I or reputation. He sculptured a statue I 1 representing a sleeping beauty , and break- I ' jng off an arm buried it in a place where I i excavations were being made. It was I s soon fonnd and lauded by critics and 1 "' the public as a valuable relic of an tiqui- i ty, far superior to anything done for S centuries. When Angelo thought it had gone far enough he produced the ,': broken arm, and, to the great mortifica- m tion of the critics, revealed himself as ? j tho sculptor. New York Ledger. ...... ..n ! .i |