The Valencian Government snapped up a bargain six months ago by buying a Joaquin Sorolla's painting "Portrait of Isabel Bru" at auction house Christie's for just $60,000.

Failed air-con has prevented us from seeing Van Dyck's masterpiece, Equestrian Portrait of Francisco de Moncada in Valencia for six years. But the painting is back in the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia.

A German philanthropist changed his will a month before his death in order to leave 41 works to the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia, including the magnificent Virgin of Cumberland by Rubens…