In 1496, Cardinal Raffaele Riario, a voracious collector of Roman antiquities, added to his collection a marble sculpture of a sleeping Eros, god of love. The cardinal had purchased the sculpture through art dealer Baldassarre del Milanese, who made a reported 200 ducats on the sale. Despite its aged appearance, however, the sculpture was not a true Roman antique, but rather a forgery created just months prior by a then-relatively-unknown 21-year-old Florentine sculptor. Who could have crafted a forgery so convincing as to deceive the informed eye of an avid, if not overly knowledgeable, collector? None other than Michelangelo…

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-how-michelangelo-got-his-start-by-forging-antiquities

Myself, I don’t have a strong opinion at this time. Well… at least the idea that Michelangelo was a complete fraud is ridiculous to me, altho the counterpoint idea that he kicked of his art career as a bit of a ‘bad boy’ certainly has legs to me.

“Me suspects that all kinds (across history) have skellingtons in their pocketses, my precious”– Gollum.