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Prado Denies Goya Made Masterpiece
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The Washington Post
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July 5, 2008
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-- For years Spain's famed Prado museum had its suspicions about
one of its most prized Goyas. Now the museum says it is certain the
painting is not by the 18th-century master.
The Prado's announcement last week about the Colossus, a large
oil painting depicting the torso of a giant bursting through the
clouds as he marches above a terrified village, is causing a furor
among experts, some of whom still believe the painting is genuine.
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes's Colossus has always been one of
the Prado's major attractions and a highlight of his series on
Spain's war against Napoleon, whose troops invaded in 1808.
Doubts about its authenticity began to surface in the early 1990s
and ...
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