Princess Rita Jenrett Boncompagni Ludovisi is required to sell the massive property, complete with a Caravaggio-painted ceiling, over an inheritance dispute with her stepsons.
went on a court-ordered auction block Tuesday, thanks to an inheritance dispute pitting the heirs of one of Rome’s aristocratic families against their stepmother, a Texas-born princess.
A detail of a fresco inside The Casino dell’Aurora, also known as Villa Ludovisi in Rome, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. The villa in the heart of Rome that features the only known ceiling painted by Caravaggio is being put up for auction by court order. “It’s been emotional since I received the notice from the judge on Sept. 2. I’ve rarely slept,” Boncompagni Ludovisi told The Associated Press a few hours before the auction began. “It’s like going through the stages of death and dying. ...
The stairway of The Casino dell’Aurora, also known as Villa Ludovisi, in Rome, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. It was commissioned in 1597 by a diplomat and patron of the arts who asked the then-young painter to decorate the ceiling of the small room being used as an alchemy workshop. The 2.75-meter wide mural, which depicts Jupiter, Pluto and Neptune, is unusual: It’s not a fresco, but rather oil on plaster, and represents the only ceiling mural that Caravaggio is known to have made.
A general view of the Casino dell'Aurora, also known as Villa Ludovisi, in Rome, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. “I had always wanted to turn it into a museum, actually, but that’s not going to happen I presume,” Boncompagni Ludovisi said Tuesday as she took visitors on a tour of the home. “So my hope is that whomever buys it will treat it with the care and love that my husband and I did.”
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