How Do We Know These Bronzes Are By Michelangelo? Eight-Pack Abs, Short Big Toes, Messy Pubic Hair

It’s those features, common in his male nudes and rare in those of his colleagues, that led researchers at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge to be certain that the two “Rothschild Bronzes” were sculpted by Michelangelo — making them the only surviving works in that metal by the Florentine artist.