EARLIER THIS YEAR, the University of Bradford issued a statement announcing that the de Brécy Tondo, a painting bearing a close resemblance to Raphael’s celebrated Sistine Madonna, 1512-1513, in Dresden, was not, in fact, the work of an unknown hand but by Raphael himself. If this is indeed the case, the painting would be the most important addition to the Raphael oeuvre since the discovery in 1991 of the Madonna of the Pinks (La Madonna dei Garofani), now in the National Gallery in London.
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