A rare Caravaggio masterpiece valued at $331 million is locked away in a private Italian villa at the center of a bitter inheritance battle
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I teach Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, so when I was visiting Rome in January 2023, how could I not try to see a notorious villa that was up for sale and involved in a nasty inheritance dispute? The Villa Aurora, named for the masterful fresco by the 17th-century artist Guercino that adorns…
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