US EditionMachala Was Given a Lesson in Journalistic Ethics, Questioned the Historian. How the Bust Was Returned to Levoča
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The Secretary General of the Service Office of the Ministry of Culture, Lukáš Machala, returned to Levoča on Wednesday, September 3. In May, in a black hoodie, he supervised the masked men who were taking the bust of Cecilia Gonzaga from the Spiš Museum to an unknown location at the time. Now in Levoča, he announced that, according to an expert opinion, the work was not created by Donatello, it is a “modern forgery of modest quality” and not a R…
"We didn't have the opportunity to see this beauty, so I am very grateful that I will finally see this beauty. It is state property. No depository in Slovakia was suitable for this bust to be placed in it. And we still don't know what value we are talking about," said Culture Minister Martina Šimkovičová (SNS) together with Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer) at a press conference on June 13. At the time, journalists wanted to know why Šimkovičová…
A bust from a Slovak museum, which was attributed to the Italian Renaissance sculptor Donatello, is a forgery and a replica from the 19th century. Referring to the conclusions of an analysis by Italian Renaissance expert Francesco Caglioti, a senior official at the Slovak Ministry of Culture, Lukáš Machala told reporters on Wednesday.
The bust of Cecilia Gonzaga has been kept in the Spiš Museum since 1975.
Lukáš Machala claims that expert Marta Herucová was politicking when she called for the bust to be returned to Levoča.
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