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Based on the research of John Marciari, the Curator of European Art and Head of Provenance Research at The San Diego Museum of Art, a seventeenth-century Spanish painting portraying The Education of the Virgin in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery has been reattributed to Diego Velazquez. Dr. Marciari’s article on the painting was published in the July-September issue of the Madrid-based journal Ars Magazine, but news of the discovery broke on July 1 on the front page of El Pais, the largest newspaper in Spain. Within days, the story had been picked up by virtually every newspaper in Spain, by the British newspaper The Guardian, and by newspapers throughout Latin America. Reports by Bloomberg and Reuters soon led to extensive coverage in U.S. arts sources as well. The lecture presents the case for the reattribution in a tale of discovery, detective work, and commentary on the art world’s reluctance to admit new works to the canon. |
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