THE YOUNG VELAZQUEZ

Donated to the museum in 1925, the Yale University Art Gallerys Education of the Virgindepicting Saint Anne teaching a young Virgi n Mary to readwas long considered to be a work by an unknown Spanish artist. Considerably damaged, the painting was relegated to st orage and never carefully studied until 2005, when John Marciari reattributed the work to Diego Velázquez (15991660), the most sign ificant painter of the Spanish Golden Age. The extraordinary narrative of this painting and its reattribution is chronicled here, ac companied by...[Leer más]