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Uncovered at last: the shameful secret of Scotland's fake Botticelli
2005
Overview
The painting was bought in a blaze of publicity by the director of the National Gallery of Scotland, Stanley Cursiter, who boasted in the pages of The Scotsman that the gallery had acquired \"a newly discovered portrait of a youth by Botticelli\". While the picture closely resembled a painting in the Louvre attributed to the \"school of Botticelli\", Cursiter noted that the work he had acquired was \"clearly superior\". It was not: by 1952, three years after Cursiter left the galleries, his successor Ellis Kirkham Waterhouse had helped confirm that the Louvre had the original painting. Scotland was the proud owner of a 20th century copy.
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Scotsman Publications
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