Botticelli 'copy' in Welsh museum is genuine, experts say

Masterpiece’s ‘rebirth’ features in BBC Four series as conservators find doodle underneath paintingA doodle of a man’s head unseen for more than 500 years has helped to persuade experts that a painting in the national museum of Wales is almost certainly a genuine Botticelli.National Museum Cardiff has put on display a painting of a Madonna and child that had for decades been dismissed as a crude copy of Botticelli’s style. Continue reading...