Sotheby's declares 'Parmigianino' a forgery

Another "Old Master" linked to Giuliano Ruffini, the Frenchman at the center of an investigation into a series of suspected forgeries, has been declared a fake by Sothebys. This time, the auction house has had to reimburse $672,000 to the buyer of a Saint Jerome, which was sold at auction in New York in January 2012 as a work from the circle of Parmigianino.
Sothebys says that a "technical analysis", led by Orion Analytical, in Williamstown, Massachusetts "established that the work was undoubte