Is That a Real Velázquez, or Are You Just Happy to See Me?

The Education of the Virgin, 1617-18. Photo: Yale University Art Gallery

Two experts will battle it out at a symposium in Seville (15-17 October) sponsored by the Spanish bank Santander, which has paid for the work to be restored.

According to the Art Newspaper, “The foremost dissenter is Jonathan Brown, a professor of art at New York University’s Institute.” The proponent is a curator, John Marciari, now the head of drawings at New York’s Morgan Library and Museum, who attributed the work to Velázquez.