Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Friday 20 October 1939, page 6
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ENIIINE RAPHAEL FOUND i
In South America
DETROIT Mrs. Ruth Van' Sickle Ford, President of the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, said yesterday
that she felt certain the "Madonna
1 of '. Bogota" was a genuine painting
by Raphael. Mrs. Ford (was a guest at the summer home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Turner, of Detroit.
Claims of- Professor, Santiago Martinez Delgado, Professor of Architecture and Fine Arts at the University of Bogota, Colombia the
picture, have been substantiated by documents, X-rays and experiments and I feel certain the painting is a Raphael," she said. a "Professor Delgado brought the painting to Chicago
for examination." '
In Chicago, Leo A, Marzolo, restorer of paintings at the Chicago Art Institute, estimated that the value
of the' painting would not be a cent less than 100 000 dollars',' if it was, proved genuine. ' I
Mrs. Ford said that Marzolo would be commissioned to restore the paint-
ing and' that it would hang in Chicago. Professor
Delgado said he found the picture in a Bogota home and that it had been in the possession of one family, for four centuries. It was generally regarded as a copy of the "Madonna of the Rose" in the Prado
Galleries in Madrid, art experts agreeing the latter painting was the
work of either Giulio Romano or Piercino del -Vaga, pupils of Raphael. In South America the "Madonna of Bogota" was considered as the work of a South American painter, Professor
Delgado said. i