No more judicial auctions for the Aurora Casino. It will be sold privately

No auction for the Casino dell’Aurora, the annex of the Villa Ludovisi (destroyed in 1885), where Caravaggio’s only known mural painting is kept, which depicts Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto and was executed in 1597 for Francesco Maria Del Monte, who owned the property at the time. After a series of unsuccessful auctions (the Casino had been valued at 471 million euros, at the first auction it started from a base of 353 million, until the sixth, which again went unsuccessful, with an estimated value of 144 million euros), the dispute that had pitted the owners against each other has been resolved.

In fact, the owners, Repubblica reveals, announced that they “have resolved any inheritance dispute over the property containing the only wall painting by Caravaggio in the world.” Thus, the court in Rome will no longer have to handle the transaction, which will instead take place privately. At the end of April, Princess Rita Jenrette Boncompagni Ludovisi, who had been residing in the Casino where she had lived for 20 years (she is the widow of Nicolò Boncompagni Ludovisi, who passed away in 2018), was evicted, and with the eviction ended the long hereditary dispute between the prince’s last wife and his children. A complex dispute that had necessitated putting the Casino up for judicial auction. Then there is also an issue regarding the work to be done in the building, where the court has already found a “serious disregard for the dangerous situation generated by the lack of preservation of the property endangering the safety of people and the protection of its priceless socio-historical value.”

In any case, the heirs have reached an agreement “for the purpose of putting the property up for sale,” entrusted to a private broker. The sale, therefore, will take place privately. And at the time of any negotiations, nothing is yet known.

No more judicial auctions for the Aurora Casino. It will be sold privately

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