Word: correggios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Madonna and Child attributed to Correggio. Says Eckhardt: "There are not more than 125 paintings by Correggio in the world, and this is definitely not one of them...
...victim of a mammoth hoax. Said he: "With the exception of the Canadian paintings and the eleven old German paintings on permanent loan, there is almost nothing which is really worthwhile in the permanent collection . . . The Titian is not a Titian, the Rubens is not a Rubens, and the Correggio not a Correggio...
...coins and trinkets) carted off from Berlin* and Dresden museums since 1945. After months of temporizing, Russian authorities finally answered an East German museum official's request for the return of the masterpieces with a flat no. Their reason: the treasures (including Raphael's Sistine Madonna, Correggio's Holy Night, Giorgione's Venus) were legitimate "war booty...
...capable ... It was on this occasion that I imposed a contribution of works of art for the Museum at Paris; being the first instance of the kind that occurs in modern history. Parma furnished twenty pictures chosen by the French Commissioners, amongst which was the famous Saint Jerome [by Correggio]. The duke offered two millions to be allowed to keep this picture." But Napoleon ruled that it would be "ornamental" to his capital...