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Two Caravaggios in 24 Hours? The “Young Man with a Vase of Roses” and a Mystery Portrait

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Bright comic of a smiling cartoon art historian with glasses and a magnifying glass and a bearded scholar holding a small portrait, both with clear faces facing the viewer, beside a baroque painting of a young man with a carafe of roses

Within one weekend, two scholars attributed two early paintings to Caravaggio: a long-lost “Young Man with a Vase of Roses” in a French private collection and a portrait once sold as Tuscan school. The evidence is very different.