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Caravaggios Found [7min @13:30]

When you're an art curator, they probably come with the turf: calls from terribly excited people who claim to have found a Rembrandt or a Renoir lying on the floor their grandmother's attic. So, when Jose Freches got that call from someone in France's Loire Valley claiming to have found a couple of Caravaggios, he didn't really raise a eyebrow. Not until he saw them, anyway. Monsieur Freches is a Caravaggio expert and curator. We reached him at his home in the French countryside near Nîmes.
Read entire article at CBC Radio One "As It Happens" Part 3