By: Ciaran Giles, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MADRID, Spain - For years Spain's famed Prado museum had its suspicions about one of its most prized Goyas, and 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 bursting through the clouds as he marches above a terrified village, is causing a furor among experts, some of whom still believe the painting is genuine. 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 its authenticity began to surface in the early 1990s and grew in April, when the museum unexpectedly excluded the painting from its blockbuster...
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