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# Botticelli's "Madonna of the Veil" turns out to be a twentieth-century fake, painted from the popular 1930s actress Jean Harlow
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/madonna-s-vualiu-sandro-bottichelli-okazalas-poddelkoi-xx-veka-napisannoi-s-populiarnoi-aktrisy-1930-kh-dzhin-kharlou/
- Published: 2025-08-12T06:30:10.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:29:08.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Art, Science, Pop Culture, Humour

Doubts about its authenticity were confirmed by the discovery of modern pigments. The true author of the "Botticelli Madonna" proved to be the twentieth-century Italian artist Umberto Ginti (1886-1970)

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