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Genius, but Miser - the Truth About Michelangelo: "He was a funny sort of man, somewhat paranoid and somewhat dishonest, who didn't want it to be known he was fabulously rich," Rab Hatfield, a professor at the Florence branch of Syracuse University, told Reuters Monday.
Michelangelo complained in his old age that he was living in poverty, but Hatfield says he had amassed a massive fortune from creating masterworks such as his gleaming white marble David, now in Florence's Accademia gallery.