The Italian pseudo-intellectual property and the end of public domain

Daniele da Volterra (Daniele Ricciarelli) (Italian, Volterra 1509–1566 Rome).Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564), probably ca. 1544.Oil on wood; 34 3/4 x 25 1/4 in. (88.3 x 64.1 cm).The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Clarence Dillon, 1977 (1977.384.1).http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/436771