The owners of the documents considered starting price (2.6 million euros) is too low

GIORGIO VASARI a self-Portrait. 1566-1568
Source: museumsinflorence.com

Yesterday at auction in the Italian city of Arezzo was to receive an archive of the founder of modern art history, Giorgio Vasari (Giorgio Vasari), comprising correspondence with Michelangelo, Cosimo I de ' Medici and five pontiffs, but the auction was cancelled just a few minutes before the start. The reason — document owners, aristocrats Festari (Festari), considered the starting price (2.6 million Euro) is too low. Furthermore, they argue that the Italian Agency for taxes and fees Equitalia described the archive for the debts and ostanovivshii to give it up for auction, with them not really consulted.

Earlier it was reported that Giovanni Festari (Giovanni Festari), who died in October last year, a few weeks before his death sold the paper Vasari a certain Russian company called ROSS Engineering, which has agreed to pay 150 (!) million euros. According to Italian sources, the head of the company Vasily Stepanov said that acquires archive of anonymous oligarch. Then it was announced that the mysterious buyer was killed in an accident — and two weeks before the deal. But journalists found that on that day (September 9), no big businessmen in a car accident did not get...

In General, dark story. The Italian authorities, having learned of the proposed sale, raised the noise: it turned out that, according to government decree, the documents can only be in the house-музее Vasari in Arezzo and to take them where-либо prohibited. The mayor, however, said that for the proposed "oligarchs" in the amount of the decree may withdraw, so that the state should hurry up and hurry to buy the archive. Minister of culture Sandro Bondi (Sandro Bondi) promised to send to auction.

Critics argue that the story of a Russian oligarch was just a ploy to force the state to buy the documents at a higher price. According to a renowned expert on Renaissance art, Vittorio Sgarbi (Vittorio Sgarbi), the true value of the archive — about 10 million euros.

Festari are descendants of the executor Vasari named Spinelli (Spinelli). Securities owned by them were discovered in the early twentieth century, and before three hundred years they were considered lost.

the Material was prepared Yulia Maksimova, AI

Sources: artinfo.com, artinvestment.ru