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Francesca Rossi, curator in charge of the Sforzesco Castle drawings collection, examines a work by Umberto Boccioni in the same room where Simone Peterzano sketches are preserved. She says art historians who claim to have found early drawings of Caravaggio, a student of Peterzano, are naive and "never came here in the drawings department to scrutinize the works." Yet Maurizio Bernardelli Curuz says he was able to visit the collection after hours and "saw the originals." (Associated Press)

Caravaggio claims spark spat in Italian art world

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Caravaggio claims spark Italian art world spat

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011 photo visitors admire the portrait of Caravaggio by an unknown painter during the presentation to journalists of an exhibit dedicated to the Lombard painter titled: "Caravaggio in Rome", in Rome. Two Italian art historians are claiming, Thursday, July 5, 2012, to have identified dozens of drawings as those of a very young Caravaggio in a collection of works of a master painter he studied under in the late 1500s. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito, File)

Art historians claim to find new Caravaggio works

By Frances d'Emilio - Associated Press

Art historians claim to find new Caravaggio works

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press