Doing away with many preconceived ideas and over-enthusiastic attributions, the Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Agen is staging a bold, landmark show on the Spanish master.
Juliet Wilson-Bareau may be fragile-looking, dulcet-toned and smiling, but she is rousing trepidation in museums all over the world. One by one, the British art historian, who has toiled for decades on unravelling the mystery of Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, has been downgrading paintings wrongly attributed to him by tradition, such as the famous Colossus in the Prado Museum. "All museums have problematic Goya paintings, without knowing whether they…
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