The Art Newspaper quoted sources saying the London-based Russian billionaire was the buyer of both paintings.
The Art Newspaper said the removal of the black paint on the replica had revealed "the fine details of the delicate Tuscan landscape", which mirrors the background of Leonardo's masterpiece.
"It sometimes seems as if everything that could have gone wrong with the Museumplein building projects has gone wrong, " said Wim Pijbes, the Rijksmuseum's general director, told The Art Newspaper back in 2011.
However, some experts remain sceptical: "The key thing is that the pose in the newly discovered version can now be linked back to an original concept by Titian, " Bendor Grosvenord, co-director of the Philip Mould gallery in London told The Art Newspaper.
At a recent lecture at the LSE in London, market editor of The Art Newspaper Melanie Gerlis illustrated this new art world order with a description of the recent auction of a painting by Dutch artist Lawrence Alma Tadema, a long-forgotten Victorian favourite.
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In 2004, according to the London-based Art Newspaper, the number of people attending museum exhibits expanded to 43 million, with more than 14 million in the U.S. alone.
The theft of treasure is nothing new--it is one of folklore's most persistent themes--but thanks to novels, films and the newspaper headlines, art theft has captured the public's imagination like few other types of crime have.
There is a book on The Art of the Idea by John Hunt, and a book if ideas produced by the UK newspaper society.
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An obituary in the Oklahoman newspaper said Antonia was especially talented in music and art, and had recently auditioned to sing in the school's talent show.
Writing in the Sydsvenskan newspaper, Mr Schulman questioned whether it should be called art.
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He owns a nightclub, various restaurants, a newspaper, a radio station, his own record label and a state-of-the-art recording studio where young artists can develop their careers, and where he produces several of his own albums every year, aimed at the African market.
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