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Restorer discovers Goya painting

BBC News

A painting previously attributed to Spaniard Salvador Maella is now thought to have been painted by his better known contemporary Francisco de Goya.

The painting of the Virgin Mary, called Inmaculada or The Immaculate Virgin, was subjected to 10 months of tests.

A clue to the master's technique was a cat on the cloud below the Virgin.

The painting, worth around three million euros ($3.7m; £2.1m) is thought to have been painted in 1781 when Goya, aged 35, was painting similar works.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3733090.stm

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