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The masterpiece wasn’t intentionally tucked away, however—the work has been reattributed to Velázquez by John Marciari. Marciari, who is curator of European art and head of provenance research at the San Diego Museum of Art (and a Ph.D. student at Yale), studied the badly damaged painting for six years before concluding that The Education of the Virgin was painted not by an anonymous Seville artists, but by Velázquez. The work is dated from 1617-1618 and was created with pigments consistent with Velázquez’s earliest work. It was donated to Yale in 1925.