The Caritas Romana, a work of 1643 by the painter Artemisia Gentileschi was about to be sold at auction, as had happened to another painting by the same artist, which was awarded a few months ago to a collector for 1.8 million. The carabinieri of the Nucleo protecting the cultural heritage of Bari, however, arrived before the seventeenth-century painting (a 121×147 oil on canvas depicting the story of Cimone and Pero and worth at least 2 million euros) was sold in Austria and they seized and brought back to Italy: in Bari, from where he will return to his home of origin, the Marchione di Conversano castle.
Art, masterpiece by Artemisia Gentileschi saved from an auction in Austria and returned to the castle of Conversano: heirs of the count investigated
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