“Is it or isn’t it a Michelangelo? That is the question being pondered by art experts after the Italian state spent 3.3 million euros, or $4.2 million, last year to buy a small wooden crucifix attributed to that Renaissance genius.” If it’s not a Michelangelo, “then the state may have squandered its dwindling resources” at a time “when more than one billion euros have been cut from the Culture Ministry’s projected budget for the next three years.”