Help Please with fixing an ugly shadow on image of a painting

I hope it's OK to ask advice on the technique needed to fix an image. I am used to processing images and making global adjustments but I wonder if there's away around this. My last resort will be to clone or heal but I want to retain the integrity of the image (it's of a painting). It has a shadow on it from the easle it was sat on whilst photographing.
Shadow detail: http://www.imagesandwords.org.uk/test/UglyShadow.jpg
Whole image: http://www.imagesandwords.org.uk/test/UglyShadowLge.jpg
Many thanks
Martin
I have CS4

Since you said you were familiar with making global adjustments, I did sort of
what KatWoman did and made a rough lasso selection (with just a bit of feather
- not much for now) then added an adjustment layer (curves, or whatever, or,
as I did, the dreaded levels - center slider to 1.8-ish - for my quickie
attempt), which creates a mask from the selection, and adjusted to suit. Then
I brushed at the mask with a nice large, soft edged, brush at low opacity to
soften the transition. This lets you continually brush out-to-in with black or
in-to-out with white, and lets you continue to play with the adjustment
settings, too.
Some of the artist's brush detail is still obviously going to be missing due
to the lack of detail in the shadow, but it's not bad for some purposes.
-Greg.

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