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Nature 445, 695 (15 February 2007) | doi:10.1038/445695a; Published online 14 February 2007

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Spectroscopy puts painting in the Renaissance.

Art collector George Lester Winward acquired this beautiful Madonna and child, now known as the De Brécy Tondo, in 1981 at a country-house sale in England. The more he studied it, the more he became convinced that it was painted by the Renaissance artist Raphael — not least because of its striking resemblance to Raphael's sixteenth-century Sistine Madonna in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden.

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