Today, the auction will archive Giorgio Vasari
Starting price - 2,6 million euros
Giorgio Vasari Self-portrait. 1566-1568
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Today in the Italian city of Arezzo will be an auction, which will archive the founder of modern art history, Giorgio Vasari (Giorgio Vasari, 1511-1574). Among the documents - 17 letters to a friend Vasari, the Renaissance titan Michelangelo, as well as correspondence with the Florentine ruler Cosimo I de 'Medici, and several popes.
with the archive linked a mysterious history. According to the decree of the Italian Government, it can only be in the house-museum of Vasari in Arezzo. But last October the mayor Giuseppe Fanfani (Giuseppe Fanfani) learned that the documents had bought (for 150 million euros!) A kind of Russia's gas magnate. The deal, rumored to have been committed in the Moscow hotel "Metropol" 23 September, just weeks before the death of the owner, Count Giovanni Festari (Giovanni Festari). The mayor appealed to the government, whose representatives said that the archive in any case can not be transported to another location. But according to Fanfani, the decree may be revoked at any time, and therefore the state should not loiter and to buy the precious documents.
The amount allegedly laid an unnamed oligarch, has shocked the Italian experts. They argue that the cost of the archive does not exceed 10 million euros. It's not only an incredible details: a lawyer "gas magnate unexpectedly announced that on September 9, that is, two weeks before the deal, his client killed in a car accident.
Shortly archive demanded Tax Service, whose representatives said that the family of Giovanni Festari underpaid a substantial sum to the treasury. The money in the end decided to gather with the auction.
auction will begin with the sum of 2,6 million euros. Culture Minister Sandro Bondi (Sandro Bondi) stated that there would send a representative, with an indication to take an active part in the auction.
Giorgio Vasari was a talented artist and architect, but mainly it is the brainchild of a book "Lives of the most famous painters, sculptors and architects. The town of Arezzo, which is a native writer, next year will celebrate the 500 anniversary of his birth.
Sources: , artinvestment.ru
