This Michelangelo work just marked history: Sold for US$27,200,000, a new artist record. What began as an unsuspecting photograph submitted through our Auction Estimate portal — a previously unseen and unrecorded Michelangelo study for the Sistine Chapel — just became the most expensive Michelangelo work ever sold from the artist, nearly 30 times its estimate. Identified by our specialist Giada Damen, one of only around 50 studies related to the Sistine Ceiling, and one of just a handful of Mich