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The Barnes takes a beating…

Over 20 Old Masters downgraded in scholarly investigation. In preparation for the Barnes Foundation’s move to downtown Philadelphia, a survey of its collections has resulted in many reattributions.

The first scholarly survey of the Barnes Foundation’s collection since it opened in 1922 is confirming what trained eyes have long known: many of the collection’s 120 Old Master paintings are not what the foundation has said they are. Some 22 works formerly attributed to Bosch, Giorgione, Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto, El Greco, Watteau and others have been reattributed by scholars taking part in the Collection Assessment Project, which has been examining the foundation’s roughly 9,000 objects and works of art over the past four years…

From the Arts Newspaper – read the rest there.

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