Going Once...
René Ammann
7. de febrer 2022
Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto by Caravaggio. Ceiling painting in oil, 300 x 152 cm. Casino dell'Aurora, Villa Boncompagni Ludovisi, Rome. (Photo rotated 90º clockwise from original at Wikimedia Commons, where it is considered "a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art.")
Number of bids placed in an auction for a sixteenth-century villa in Rome containing the only ceiling mural ever painted by the Italian master Caravaggio, put on the market for €471m ($539 million) in mid-January: 0
A video of Villa Aurora and its many artworks, including the Caravaggio, posted to the web page of the auction (via NPR):