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Undated image released by the Prado Museum in Madrid made available Friday July 4, 2008, of the the painting titled 'Colossus' (Coloso) by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes'. 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 Colossus (Coloso), 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. MADRID, Spain -- For years Spain's famed Prado museum had its suspicions about one of its most prized Goyas. Now the museum says it is certain the painting is not by the 18th-century master. The Prado's announcement last week about the Colossus, a large oil painting depicting the torso of a giant... [read full story]
