Spain's Prado Museum says that famous painting is not a Goya after all Ciaran Giles, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MADRID, Spain - For years, Spain's famed Prado museum has had its suspicions. Now it is certain: One of its most prized Goyas is not a Goya after all. The bombshell announcement about the "El Coloso" ("Colossus"), a large-size work depicting the torso of a giant bursting through the clouds as he marches above a village of terrified people and animals, is causing a furor among experts. Many are upset at how the Prado has handled the matter. At least one still insists the painting is a work of the 18th-century master. Francisco de Goya y Lucientes' "Colossus" has always been one of the Prado's major attractions and a highlight of his series on the ravages of the country's war for independence against Napoleon's invading...
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