Attribution

Is it or isn't it? An article in the New York Times this morning discusses the Metropolitan Museum of Art's decision that the painting pictured above really is by the hand of Diego Velázquez, but blogger CultureGrrl, who we read every day, has her own strong opinions about the seesaw back and forth. So what do you think?

Edit: Ah-ha. It's another attribution issue she questions. We just didn't follow the link to this page on a hypothetical Michelangelo. Still, as we're currently wrapping up the long, long project that is the three-volume "Corpus of Early Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections: The South," attribution is on our minds. Many of the entries deal with the differing opinions of scholars about just who painted a given image, as with the Lowe Art Museum's "The Savior," currently attributed to Benedetto Diana but previously to an artist of the Venetian school (ca. 1500) and to Girolamo Mocetto.