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Inspired by Italian baroque music, the beautifully assembled dances are painted in Stravinsky's unmistakable colours.

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The artwork had been billed as a newly discovered masterpiece by the Italian Baroque painter and was sold for $300,000, but now experts from the Prado museum in Madrid have declared it a fake.

Caravaggio's influence led to the start of the Italian Baroque era. This three-hour Caravaggio tour of Rome, led by an art historian, explores the nature of Caravaggio's art in the context of its time ...