Garage find could be a lost Renaissance masterpiece worth $900K

One man’s garage junk is now an art historian’s treasure.

A dusty painting sitting under a garage workbench just traded places — straight into the Renaissance big leagues with a price tag fit for a Medici.

Without a clue of its origins, the Oxfordshire local who snagged the priceless artwork years ago unknowingly owned a masterpiece by 15th-century Italian painter Pietro Vannucci, better known as Perugino, once considered a contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci.

The long-forgotten panel, dubbed Madonna and Child, sparked a frenzy after hitting the website of JS Fine Arts in Banbury, where international collectors jammed the phone lines and sent staff scrambling.

When the bidding finally kicked off, the battle was as dramatic as a Vatican fresco reveal: 15 minutes of online, phone, and in-r