UNSEEN TREASURES
The February 5, 1996 issue of Newsweek, told of a wonderful work of art created by Michelangelo, the great fifteenth century artist. People had walked by it every day and hardly even looked at it, much less stopped to appreciate it. This statue has been setting in Manhattan, on Fifth Avenue, near the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a three-foot statue of Cupid, in a courtyard fountain, right under everyone’s noses, and nobody realized that it is a work of the great Michelangelo which has been missing for 90 years. Thousands of people walked by it every day, and no one recognized it for the wonderful thing that it is. Only recently, an art professor who herself had walked by this statue of Cupid for years — hundreds of times — suddenly one evening on her way home from work looked at it more closely and realized what it is, what a treasure it is. We sometimes just don’t seem to realize what…
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