Museum’s experts realised painter’s Ecce Homo had been misattributed in auction catalogueFour centuries after it was painted, three and a half centuries after it arrived in Spain and three years after it came perilously close to going under the hammer …
Caravaggio’s Ecce Homo nearly escaped attention, having initially been attributed to another 17th Century artist.
Caravaggio’s Ecce Homo nearly escaped attention, having initially been attributed to another 17th Century artist.
Madrid’s Prado Museum has confirmed that a painting which almost sold for the price of a Macbook at auction is in fact a long lost work of the Italian master painter worth tens of millions.
Ecce Homo will be museum’s second Caravaggio, after being spotted on sale in Spanish capital in 2021A lost Caravaggio painting of the scourged and thorn-crowned Christ that was misattributed and almost sold for just €1,500 is to go on show at the Prado…
