Contentious Caravaggios emerge from the royal storeroom

by kate | March 27, 2007 at 12:11 pm
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 In recent times there has been a lot of discourse that normalizes the Royal Family as just a regular family. Still, it's moments like this - finding two Caravaggios stowed away someplace -where you really get a sense of how weird it would be.

For centuries, two paintings in the Royal Collection lay in the dusty storerooms of Hampton Court after experts dismissed them as worthless imitations of Caravaggio's masterpieces.

The experts were wrong. This week, those works will emerge out of storage where they were obscured by varnish and dirt, to be triumphantly displayed to the public.

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