Spain's Prado stirs controversy by saying famous Goya painting is not a Goya after all

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 terrified village, is causing a furor among the art world. Many experts are upset at how the Prado has handled the matter and at least one still insists the painting was done by 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 Spain's war against Napoleon, whose troops invaded in 1808. Doubts about the work's authenticity began to surface in the early 1990s, but eyebrows were raised in April when the museum unexpectedly excluded the... [read full story]