[Free ThinkerNY]

[TomServo]

Maybe he just had a bad day at the office.

[arderkrag]

I’ve never thought of that as one of Goya’s great masterpieces...might just be me though.

[muawiyah]

Just google.com Asensio Juliá, then hit "images" and you will see a whole bunch of other paintings by Asensio along with the one in question.

Pretty obviously Asensio's work and not Goya's. Even the same model used in other of his works.

[GovernmentShrinker]

the discovery of the initials A. J. in one corner of the canvas.

Well, yes, that would be a little hard to explain if the picture was by Francisco de Goya . . .

[Ditter]

That's it? Pretty awful, but I am not crazy about the real Goyas.

[pabianice]

Yes, unemployed Americans really give a $hit about this sort of news...

[snarks_when_bored]

Experts at the Prado started an investigation last year when José Luis DÍez, the gallery’s curator of 19th-century art, suggested that The Colossus was the work of Juliá after a detailed analysis of the picture. He based his claims on the discovery of the initials A. J. in one corner of the canvas.

Nobody ever noticed the frickin' initials? That's pretty funny.

[yazoo]

So, something that yesterday was considered a masterpiece become a worthless piece of junk art. So goes the art world.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Kind of looks like Iron Man

[kitchen]

Art history ping.