The art historians Jacky Klein and Bendor Grosvenor came across the painting while making Britain’s Lost Masterpieces Andrew Staite/BBC/Tern TelevisionHidden away above a doorway in a Scottish stately home, the discoloured picture of the Madonna had not attracted much attention for over a century. The artwork attributed to a minor Italian painter and thought to be of little value is, however, now believed by art historians to be a lost masterpiece by Raphael. The work has still to be fully authenticated but the last lost Raphael found on a wall of Alnwick Castle in Northumberland sold for £35 million. The painting, which shows a Madonna with clasped hands, is believed to have been painted by the Renaissance master between…

Source: The Times October 03, 2016 23:02 UTC