Word: velasquez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That night, as Jesús scrubbed away the accumulation of greasy grime, the figure of a 17th Century cavalier gradually emerged, and behind it a flight of marble steps. Fully cleaned, it had all the depth and brilliance of a Velasquez. Jesús could hardly believe his eyes, but when Toledo's museum sent two genuine Velasquez fragments to the Prado for temporary storage, Jesús jubilantly produced his find. The three bits matched perfectly. Apparently they were three parts from the same long-lost Velasquez, which some enterprising art dealer had long ago scissored...