For more than a century, The Education of the Virgin was believed to be the work of an unknown 17th-century Spanish artist and was kept in storage. But in 2004, the painting owned by Yale University was examined by a young curator, John Marciari, now the head of drawings at New York’s Morgan Library and Museum, who attributed it to Velázquez. This month, specialists will battle out the attribution at a symposium in Seville.
Posted on: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 19:00:00 +0000