Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Now I Have Doubts About Mona Lisa

A study concludes that the famous painting known as The Colossus, attributed to Francisco de Goya, is not the work of that Spanish master after all.

Here's the painting:



It was considered by many to be the most famous of all of Goya's black paintings, the dark, morbid paintings that Goya painted in his old age.

Now scholars have concluded after much study of the painting that it was painted by Asension Julia, one of Goya's protegés.

All sorts of art texts will have to be rewritten, I would guess.

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