{"id":414718,"date":"2026-02-08T14:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T14:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/414718\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T14:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T14:26:15","slug":"michelangelo-foot-sketch-sold-for-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/414718\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelangelo foot sketch sold for millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A small chalk drawing of a foot, made more than 500 years ago by the famous Italian artist Michelangelo, has sold for $27.2 million (\u00a320 million.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The sketch is just 13cm long and experts think it was drawn by the artist between 1511 and 1512, whilst he was practising for one of his paintings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It&#8217;s one of only about ten Michelangelo drawings that are still privately owned, rather than owned by art galleries or museums.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The original owner, who lives in the US, chose to keep his identity a secret, but said the drawing had been passed down through his family in Europe since the 1700s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A small chalk drawing of a foot, made more than 500 years ago by the famous Italian artist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-414718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}