A newlyattributed painting by Titian has gone on display in Spain.Curators at the Prado museum in Madrid claim thepainting of St John the Baptist, found in a Spanish church, was painted by theItalian master.
The painting, which resided in a church in Almeriafor more than 120 years, was originally believed to be a copy.
The artwork, which has undergone extensiverestoration, will be exhibited at Spain's national museum until early nextFebruary.
It will be shown alongside Titian's two other knownversions of John the Baptist, loaned from the Accademia gallery in Venice andthe monastery at the former royal palace of El Escorial, near Madrid.
The newly attributed work, found in the parish churchof Nuestra Senora del Carmen in Cantoria, Southern Spain, first came to theattention of art expert Miguel Falomir - curator of the current exhibition -while he was researching a catalogue to accompany the Prado's 2003 Titianexhibition.
Mr Falomir proposed that the painting could be a copyof Titian's "lost" John the Baptist paintingIn 2007, the museum undertook an extensive examinationof the painting, previously attributed to "an anonymous Madrid Schoolartist of the 17th Century", and came to the conclusion that it was anoriginal work by Titian.
However, some experts remain sceptical: "The keything is that the pose in the newly discovered version can now be linked backto an original concept by Titian," Bendor Grosvenord, co-director of thePhilip Mould gallery in London told TheArt Newspaper.
"That in itself does not mean the newly[attributed] picture is by Titian, but it almost certainly places it in theworkshop at least."
Source: BBC
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