Later, Evans also tried to destroy the career of Alan Wace, a young Cambridge scholar who argued that warlike Mycenaeans from mainland Greece had eclipsed the Minoans late in the Bronze Age, a view that today has become widely accepted.
New research from pioneering Millennial scholar Jean Twenge claims that young Americans are more sure than ever of their own self-worth and superiority over their peers.
The portrait of the unidentified young man, perhaps a writer or scholar, is said to be one of the most important Renaissance portraits still in private hands.