Lost Caravaggio almost sold for 1,300 to go on display
The Independent|May 07, 2024
The Prado museum in Madrid has confirmed that a painting due to be auctioned in Spain in 2021 is in fact a work by Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio that was considered lost.
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Lost Caravaggio almost sold for 1,300 to go on display

It will be unveiled to the public for the first time in the museum later this month.

The Prado said in a statement yesterday the work titled Ecce Homo (Behold the Man) will go on display from 27 May until October as a special one-piece exhibition following an agreement with its new owner, who has not been identified. “Since its reappearance at an auction three years ago, Ecce Homo has represented one of the greatest discoveries in the history of art,” the museum said.

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