<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ef6dc665-789d-4f67-b7f2-4f510967699f/A20BDDC1-1205-4584-8D7D-40CE12D71215/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/apr/24/week-in-art-berlusconi-nude?picture=346434538" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/apr/24/week-in-art-berlusconi-nude?picture=346434538" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/apr/24/week-in-art-berlusconi-nude?picture=346434538"><DIV class="gallery-overlay" id="overlay"> <P>Silvio Berlusconi is caught in the nude, Belfast peace walls get a makeover and there's an art spat brewing between Tehran and Washington</P></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/apr/24/week-in-art-berlusconi-nude?picture=346434538"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.guardian.co.uk/img/B1BE94E8-2145-4185-9129-9F65D64A6727" alt="Week in art: A 15th century wooden crucifix by Michelangelo" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/apr/24/week-in-art-berlusconi-nude?picture=346434538"><P>Works by Michelangelo don't come up for sale very often - so it's hardly surprising that the Italian state jumped at the chance to buy a small wooden crucifix attributed to the artist late last year. But it turns out that the piece, bought for €3.3m, might not have been by him at all: art experts are questioning the attribution. 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