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in Spain formally downgraded the attribution of the painting in their da Vinci exhibition catalog from "by
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reported that it was "surprising that Syson's entry does not at least allude to the suggestion by other scholars that parts of the picture may have been painted by assistants, even if he went on to dismiss this idea". In
November 2021, the
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exhibition in 2001 and co-created a new permanent gallery: "Enlightenment: Discovering the World in the
Eighteenth Century", which opened in 2003. From 2002 to 2003 he subsequently served as a senior curator at the
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expressing skepticism after the museum announced the attribution. In the 2021 documentary
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The Last
Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting
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Plain or Fancy? Restraint and
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