How Michelangelo Turned Art into a Fortune

In 1564, as Michelangelo Buonarroti took his final breath in Rome, his attendants uncovered something astonishing - a locked chest containing 66 pounds of gold. This wasn’t just the relic of an old man’s savings. It was the final clue in a story no one expected to tell about one of the world’s greatest artists: not of divine inspiration, but of fin…